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Herschel8074

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.340
Summary:

Board of Longitude will accomplish nothing by meeting before T. M. Brisbane comes to town, but TY suggests informal discussion, either at TY's or Henry Kater's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8075

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.341
Summary:

Henry Kater not well [enough to travel] and requests committee meet at Kater's house. TY urges JH to verify W. H. Wollaston's measurement of refraction before republishing JH's essay. Diagrams Christiaan Huygens's principle of refraction. TY is making forms of aplanatic lenses.

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John Herschel Project
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