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RefNoHS/22/118
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Henry Smyth, dated at Collingwood
CreatorJohn Frederick William Herschel
Date26 May 1842
DescriptionCopy of a letter. Thanks William Henry Smyth for C. P. Smyth drawings of Cape monument and Gamma Virginis observations. Notes Johann Heinrich Mädler's work on double stars and the doubt that they obey the inverse square law. Discusses use of photography in astronomy.
LanguageEnglish
Extent2pp
FormatManuscript
Place originCollingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent
Origin coordinates51.035306, 0.513556
AccessStatusOpen
URLDescriptionAlso available on Epsilon
URLhttps://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel4498
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
NA5062Smyth; William Henry (1788 - 1865)1788 - 1865
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