From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[5 May 1857]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20793
Summary:
Invites WW to Collingwood, informing him of other visitors coming and new rail schedule.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Invites WW to Collingwood, informing him of other visitors coming and new rail schedule.
Thanks for engravings of Saturn and Jupiter; would like to see an astronomical picture book produced.
Heard ES recommended JH write an article for Edinburgh Review on terrestrial magnetism. Asks what he should read to write this article. Photographs ES sent of sun not promising.
Responds to questions by Lord Overstone [on decimal coinage]. TS may edit these as needed.
On some odd results JH has arrived at about P. S. Laplace's barometric formula.
Regrets that he cannot attend B.A.A.S. meeting and stay with HL; thanks HL for his paper on the undulating theory.