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Add. MS a/207/22
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Letter from John Herschel
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- 20 Sept. 1831 (Production)
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5 pp
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Slough - JH's critique of the values and objectives underlying the foundations of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: science 'is often called a republic but such a society as is here proposed will make it a democratic tyranny with all the vices of the narrowest oligarchy'. JH thanks WW for his 'lecture on nomenclature' and defends his use of the word 'photonomy' in his work on light.
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A transcript of part of the letter may be found in Jack Morrell and Arnold Thackeray eds. Gentlemen of Science: Early Correspondence of the BAAS, 1984, pp. 66-68.