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Reference numberHS/17/32
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from Sir John Herschel to George Gabriel Stokes, dated at Collingwood
CreatorJohn Frederick William Herschel
Date1 July 1856
DescriptionAutograph letter signed by sender. Comments on George Gabriel Stokes's ideas [see George Gabriel Stokes's 1856-6-27] about the nature of fluorescence. Asks for strong horseshoe magnets from Royal Society [of London] to try to solve the problem of 'Mahomet's coffin.'
LanguageEnglish
Extent7pp
FormatManuscript
Place originCollingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent
Origin coordinates51.035306, 0.513556
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Access statusOpen
Related materialCopies: HS/23/173; HS/25/10/9
Related records in the catalogueHS/23/173
HS/25/10/9
URL descriptionAlso available on Epsilon
URLhttps://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel1384
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
NA8283Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); physicist1819 - 1903
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