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Add. MS a/200/11
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Letter from George Airy
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- 22 Oct. 1831 (Creation)
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GA does not think WW's letter to David Brewster 'at all savage': 'If I had any discussion with Brewster on these points I would certainly hit him about his bad information and his influence in acting on it. The revenues of professorships &c is one point already reproached - another is the character of the professors "Whewell, Airy & Hamilton" the only true experimenters - Does not [James?] Cumming do more than all? And did [Sir W. R. ?] Hamilton since he drew vital air ever make or meditate an experiment or trouble himself about other peoples?...I wish Babbage's non-lecturing could somehow be lugged into this controversy'.
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- Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer (Subject)
- Brewster, Sir David (1781-1868), Knight, natural philosopher and academic administrator (Subject)
- Cumming, James (1777-1861) chemist (Subject)
- Babbage, Charles (1791–1871) mathematician and computer pioneer (Subject)
- Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805-1865) Knight, mathematician (Subject)