RefNo | HS/18/433 |
Level | Item |
Title | Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Henry De Worms, dated at Collingwood |
Creator | John Frederick William Herschel |
Date | 24 November 1862 |
Description | Copy of a letter. Comments on Henry De Worms's The Earth and Its Mechanism. Henry De Worms erred by taking at face value François Arago's 'enormous blunder' of proving rotation from diurnal aberration. |
Language | English |
Extent | 4pp |
Format | Manuscript |
Place origin | Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent |
Origin coordinates | 51.035306, 0.513556 |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | HS/23/397 |
RelatedRecord | HS/23/397 |
URLDescription | Also available on Epsilon |
URL | https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel8166
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Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |
NA6081 | Worms; Henry de (1840 - 1903); 1st Baron Pirbright | 1840 - 1903 |