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RefNoHS/11/398
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from John William Lubbock to Sir John Herschel, dated at High Elms, Farnborough
CreatorJohn William Lubbock
Date11 September 1861
DescriptionAutograph letter signed by sender. Has been looking at John Frederick William Herschel's treatise on meteorology, especially the part relating to the barometrical formula. It seems that John Frederick William Herschel missed John William Lubbock's paper on refraction published in Transactions of the Astronomical Society, and is therefore not aware of the true nature of P. S. Laplace's atmosphere; comments on this.
LanguageEnglish
Extent6pp
FormatManuscript
Place originHigh Elms, Farnborough, Kent
Origin coordinates51.351, 0.075
AccessStatusOpen
URLDescriptionAlso available on Epsilon
URLhttps://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel11485
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7010Lubbock; Sir; John William (1803 - 1865)1803 - 1865
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
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