| RefNo | HS/18/47 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, from Henry Warburton to Sir John Herschel, dated at London |
| Creator | Henry Warburton |
| Recipient | John Frederick William Herschel |
| Date | 13 December 1847 |
| Description | Autograph letter signed by sender. Destroy all Henry Warburton's letters claiming errors in Leonhard Euler's values for Bernoulli's numbers. Mr. Hensley of Trinity College found weakness in Henry Warburton's continued subtraction method. Clarifies symbols Henry Warburton used to represent P. S. Laplace's expressions of Bernoulli's numbers. |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 11pp |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Place origin | London |
| Origin coordinates | 51.507222, -0.1275 |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| URLDescription | Also available on Epsilon |
| URL | https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel7843
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3076 | Warburton; Henry (? 1784 - 1858); politician | ? 1784 - 1858 |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); mathematician and astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |