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RefNoHS/24/87
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter, from Sir John Herschel to James Croll, dated at Collingwood
CreatorJohn Frederick William Herschel
Date6 February 1865
DescriptionIncomplete copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. In response to comments in a paper by James Croll, John Frederick William Herschel writes to establish his priority with respect to the significance of the revolution of the apsides of the earth's orbit and the eccentricity of the earth's orbit in affecting temperatures on the earth. John Frederick William Herschel had spelled this out in an 1830 paper for the Transactions of the Geological Society, and repeated it in his Outlines Astr.
LanguageEnglish
Extent3pp
FormatManuscript
Place originCollingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent
Origin coordinates51.035306, 0.513556
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialOriginal available: APS B.D25.L.7; copy: HS/24/88; copy: HS/5/300
RelatedRecordHS/24/88
HS/5/300
URLDescriptionAlso available on Epsilon
URLhttps://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel1503
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
NA6453Croll; James (1821 - 1890)1821 - 1890
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