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  <dc:title>Copy of a letter, from John Frederick William Herschel to Mary Somerville</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. Admires her manuscript [Mechanism of the Heavens]. Wishes [P. S.] Laplace would have lived to see it. Notes a problem with the principle of virtual velocity.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1830-1?</dc:date>
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