From Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel [22 January 1844]

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Please cite as “Herschel5592,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 25 March 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel5592

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Comments about the uses of a meridian telescope.

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Record number: Herschel5592
From: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To: Sir John Herschel
Date: [22 January 1844]
Sent from: Königsberg
Source of text: RS:HS 4.82
Physical description: ALS 3pp (German)

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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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