The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel6688,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 10 December 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel6688
Outlining suitability of various types of glass for optical work. Gives details of theories of his reading lenses and calls attention to one of his own papers in the R.S.P.T. for 1821.
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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