The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel10309,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel10309
Wishes JH would lay hands on the memorandum concerning the Zenith observatory on Etna. Explains why JH's theories regarding a point in gunnery do not work in actual practice. Queries the measurement given by JH for the height of Etna.
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library
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