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Herschel5790

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[21 May 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.11
Summary:

Sending DB a draft of a paper; comments on quality of a chromatic lens (that of [Charles] Tulley's telescope using Pierre Guinand's glass).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5791

From:
David Brewster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.261
Summary:

Thanks for paper on light, which he has only just read as it was mislaid. Grateful for the acknowledgement of his scientific labors. Comments and queries regarding the paper in the light of his own experiments. Wishes to reprint parts of it so would be grateful for several plates.

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John Herschel Project
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