RefNo | HS/19/47 |
Level | Item |
Title | Incomplete copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to John Herapath, dated at London |
Creator | John Frederick William Herschel |
Date | 17 October 1822 |
Description | Copy of a letter, incomplete. Heard of Herapath's new powerful geometry methods. No new views of differential calculus on Continent. Refers to those of William Spence annexed to John Frederick William Herschel's Mathematical Essays...(1819). Explains object of combinatory analysis, popular among Germans. Has not seen M. C. T. de Damoiseau's paper on lunar theory. |
Language | English |
Extent | 3pp |
Format | Manuscript |
Place origin | London |
Origin coordinates | 51.507222, -0.1275 |
AccessStatus | Open |
URLDescription | Also available on Epsilon |
URL | https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel8240
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Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |