The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel8853,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 13 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel8853
Thanks for present of Thomas Wright's books [An Original Theory of the Universe, 1750]. Finds it curious. Suggests that it is conceptually as distant from 1849 as the ancients were from it. Praises printing of its plates.
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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