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Herschel3339

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
1846-9-[22 or later]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:1390
Summary:

Returns two papers, which had been missent, thus preventing JH from communicating them at a meeting.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel3234

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
19] November [1846?
Source of text:
TCD 1493:374
Summary:

WH's theorems on ellipsoids are new to JH, but JH is unfamiliar with the field, so they may not actually be new. Wishes to master mathematics. Still working on Cape observations. Believes Neptune was almost an English discovery, and would have been well-named Minerva.

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John Herschel Project
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