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An account of the rocket experiments and P. S. Laplace's letter will be left at the R.S.L. Finds in Laplace's letter encouragement for the corroboration regarding the measurement of latitudinal degrees. Dismisses Laplace's opinions that the climate of Spitzbergen is too unfavorable for experimentation and expounds on the many reasons to favor this town.
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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