The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel12828,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel12828
Addresses problems in metric bill introduced to Parliament by William Ewart. Argues for the retention of the British system of weights and measures. Shows that the inch can be defined as one five hundred millionth of the length of the earth's polar axis.
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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