Paper, 'On circulating functions and on the integration of a class of equations of finite differences into which they enter as coefficients' by John F W [Frederick William] Herschel Subject: Mathematics Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On circulating functions, and on the integration of a class of equations of finite differences into which they enter as coefficients'. Written by Herschel in Slough. Read 19 February 1818. November 1817