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Herschel5880

From:
Jacques Babinet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1867-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.6
Summary:

Regarding the work of Emmanuel Liais (astronomer).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8356

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[5 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.158
Summary:

No mention of Emmanuel Liais's L'espace céleste in English journals. Contact London publishers to find translator for it. Alexander Herschel is now professor of natural philosophy at Andersonian Institution in Glasgow. Hopes JB's elegant method of measuring gravity by torsion will not die before being put into practice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5881

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[7 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.190
Summary:

Not willing to be involved in translation of French work on astronomy [see JB's 1867-2].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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