RefNo | HS/10/121 |
Level | Item |
Title | Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Robert Hunt, dated at Collingwood |
Creator | John Frederick William Herschel |
Date | 5 January 1846 |
Description | Copy letter in John Herschel's hand. Robert Hunt's experiments are extremely interesting and deserve to be pursued. Comments on experiments made by Michael Faraday and others relating to the formation of crystals in a magnetic field and the effect such crystals have on polarized light. |
Language | English |
Extent | 4pp |
Format | Manuscript |
Place origin | Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent |
Origin coordinates | 51.035306, 0.513556 |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | Original available: WT 68037.6 ; copy: HS/22/264 |
RelatedRecord | HS/22/264 |
URLDescription | Also available on Epsilon |
URL | https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel10768
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Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |
NA3789 | Hunt; Robert (1807 - 1887); mineralogist | 1807 - 1887 |