Item 84 - Letter from John William Lubbock

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Add. MS a/208/84

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Letter from John William Lubbock

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  • 28 Feb. 1832 (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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St. James's Place - JWL forwarded WW's 'excellent report' to Capt. Smyth [William H. Smyth]. Could WW find out whether the Syndics of the university press would publish a short work on the determination of the orbit of a comet ['On the Determination of the Distance of a Comet from the Earth, and the Elements of its Orbit', 1832]. WW has no doubt seen 'a little mistake in the expression for the time in the parabola in your dynamics' ['An Introduction to Dynamics Containing the Laws of Motion and the First Three Sections of the Principia', 1832].

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