The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel3440,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 11 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel3440
Is delighted with JH's exposition of colors of thin plates and of measurements of a wave of light in Familiar Lectures. Asks permission to quote from it.
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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