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Letter from John Herschel, Collingwood, to an unidentified recipient, 1868 February 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
103296
Accession number
MA 23330
Creator
Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871.
Display Date
Hawkhurst, England, 1868 February 8.
Credit line
Gift of Thomas M. Evans, 1978.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Previously accessioned MA 3634.
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Thomas M. Evans, 1978.
Summary
With observations and calculations regarding the orbits, rotation, density of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars, reference to various astronomical theories and referring in the postscript to the publication of his recent paper on musical scales.