From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1812]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.3
Summary:
Sends on part of letter for CB to complete and forward.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Sends on part of letter for CB to complete and forward.
Regarding equational problems.
Finding it difficult to finish his memoir. Gives some integral equations for his comments. Hopes to see him at Slough soon.
[Addressed to WN as 'Editor of the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts from 'A Lover of Modern Analysis' [JH], this letter] derives by a new method various analytical formulae for the tangent and cotangent.
Is now a clerk for [London and Edinburgh] shipping company. Does not know if he should mention his employment to Mr. Watts.
Has been quite ill; talks about one journey.
Talks about JH becoming a churchman.