RefNo | HS/25/14/16 |
Level | Item |
Title | Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Stanley Jevons, dated at Collingwood |
Creator | John Frederick William Herschel |
Date | 1856 or later? |
Description | Copy of a letter. Not aware of any experiments to ascertain the amount of personal error in the estimate of time of a star transit. John Frederick William Herschel then comments on monetary matters including the value and gold equivalence of sovereigns issued by the Mint. |
Language | English |
Extent | 2pp |
Format | Manuscript |
Place origin | Collingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent |
Origin coordinates | 51.035306, 0.513556 |
AccessStatus | Open |
URLDescription | Also available on Epsilon |
URL | https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel1158
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Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |
NA6360 | Jevons; William Stanley (1835 - 1882); economist | 1835 - 1882 |