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Herschel8260

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.64
Summary:

Compares 'Products' principle with 'Sums' principle for numerical analysis of taxation in several boroughs. JH's opinion favoring Sums was quoted 'in the Assembly.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9482

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Responds to an unidentified mathematician who had written a critique of ideas put forward by Thomas Drummond, regarding whether to estimate the importance of various boroughs primarily in terms of population or in terms of the wealth of the population.

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John Herschel Project
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