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  <dc:title>Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Whewell, dated at Crooked Crabtree, St. Leonard's Forest</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Thanks William Whewell for and expresses agreement with William Whewell's analysis of Simon Stevin. Describes experiments John Frederick William Herschel is conducting on the polarization of light.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>19 August 1818</dc:date>
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