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From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.242
Summary:

Thanks for books. Presumes Robert Molyneux has received payment for clock; this is a very good instrument, much better than [Thomas?] Young's. Encloses a work of his own, which he would like to see in the Transactions of the R.A.S. Sends propositions by a young Bavarian named K. W. Feuerbach.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 November 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.243
Summary:

Has doubtless received his Treatise on the Corrections of the Equatorials. Col. L. A. Fallon, head of the Austrian Survey, would like a Robert Molyneux clock. Can JH arrange to order one and send it via H. C. Schumacher. Encloses some notes on practical astronomy, which may be useful.

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John Herschel Project