Item 38 - James David Forbes to William Whewell

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Add. MS a/204/38

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James David Forbes to William Whewell

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  • 28 Apr. 1839 (Creation)

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Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
(1794-1866)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Athenaeum - JDF is pleased that so much is about to be done for magnetism: 'This southern expedition will be a very good thing in various respects and not least so in turning the direction of the public mind to science' [the magnetic crusade]. Robinson [John T. Robinson?] informs JDF that he has built one of Gauss's [Karl Friedrich Gauss] magnetometers for Lloyd [Humphrey Lloyd], and that it 'answers admirably'. The government have given money toward the Glasgow observatory which JDF hopes will be a physical and not an astronomical one. JDF hopes something will be done to diminish the number of entrants at the forthcoming BAAS meeting - especially with the railroad to Birmingham: 'the state of matters will be frightful, and destructive I fear of real scientific objects'. JDF is hopefully going to Paris and then to the southeast of France.

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