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Please cite as “Herschel2921,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel2921
Mentions meeting [W.] Herschel in 1816. Recalls receiving catalog from Caroline Herschel, which he then gave to the Munich observatory. Looks forward to meeting JH and 'sharing love of truth.' Sends chemistry and physics papers. Discusses code for electromagnetic signals and its origin.
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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