Item 93 - Letter from Eaton Hodgkinson

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Salford, Manchester - Encloses his paper for a final reading before it is printed. The paper is a combination of the one he read at the BAAS meeting at Cambridge [see EH to WW, 28 Feb. 1835] and later at Dublin on the subject of vertical impacts. If Whewell has no comments to make he would be grateful if he sent the proof sheet to Mr Taylor at Red Lion Court off Fleet Street. Hodgkinson meets 'with great opposition from Dr Dalton [John Dalton] in these matters because I do not use Bernoulli's definition of force (considered as the square of the velocity) and reject the Newtonian as erroneous'. For Dalton to consider force as simply the velocity has introduced numerous errors. What does Whewell think?