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Add. MS a/207/13
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Letter from John Herschel
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- 28 Aug. 1826 (Creation)
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Calais - JH has told the printers to send WW the proofs of his article on light ['Treatise on Light', Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, 1827], and is very obliged to WW for undertaking the superintendence of the press in his absence. JH has been careful with the history: 'I do not want to take on myself a task so insidious as balancing the merits and settling or even stating the claims of men so jealous as Brewster and Biot and Arago'.
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- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) 1st Baronet, mathematician and astronomer (Subject)
- Arago, Dominique François Jean (1786-1853) physicist (Subject)
- Biot, Jean-Baptiste (1774-1862) physicist (Subject)
- Brewster, Sir David (1781-1868), Knight, natural philosopher and academic administrator (Subject)