Elated that WH's account of the generation of an ellipsoid is an original result.
Letter details
Record number
Herschel3866
From
William Rowan Hamilton
To
Sir John Herschel
Date
[23 November 1846]
Sent from
Observatory
Physical description
L
Additional information
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