The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel1761,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel1761
Describes testing William Simms's object glass and then gives details of the equatorial mounting GA used; offers to send carpenter to JH to construct mounting so JH can test object glass [diagram].
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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