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Add. MS a/202/95
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Letter from Augustus De Morgan to J. W. Lubbock
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- [1831?] (Creation)
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90 G.S. - Asks for his opinion on different modes of expression in treating the Differential Calculus. Amongst other examples, he points out 'we cannot talk of total partial diff: coeff: Would complete partial diff: coeff: do?' Thanks him for his book on comets, and notes that the tides are yet undone.
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Accompanied by a transcript in Isaac Todhunter's hand of Herbert Spencer's article in the Contemporary Review March 1873, with a note about a reply by T. S. Baynes.
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- Morgan, Augustus De (1806-1871), mathematician and historian (Subject)
- Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903), philosopher, social theorist, and sociologist (Subject)
- Baynes, Thomas Spencer (1823-1887), editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (Subject)
- Lubbock, Sir John William (1803-1865) 3rd Baronet, astronomer and banker (Subject)