From:
Pierre Simon Laplace
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[early 1823]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.7
Summary:
Sends paper.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Sends paper.
Sending Part XI of his own Mécanique céleste. Comments on this work.
Letter of introduction to Mr. Robison, son of Edinburgh professor. Thanks PL for sending JH books 11 and 12 of LP's Mécanique céleste. Hopes to see PL's 'perturbations of Ceres and [J. F.] Encke's Comet.' JH's and James South's work on double stars verified views PL once held. Hopes François Arago will publish observations of double stars.