Pièce 89 - Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield

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Zone d'identification

Cote

Add. MS c/1/89

Titre

Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield

Date(s)

  • 7 Feb. 1858 (Production)

Niveau de description

Pièce

Étendue matérielle et support

4 pp.

Zone du contexte

Histoire archivistique

Bequeathed by Henrietta Litchfield (née Darwin) to Margaret Keynes.

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

Gift of Margaret Keynes, April 1952.

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

129 Union Street, Aberdeen. Describes his work in Aberdeen, has found better textbooks by Galbraith & Haughton; has got up a model to show the motions of the rings of satellites; shares what he has been reading; comments on the Senior Wranglers andread more

Zone des sources complémentaires

Publication note

Published in The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell P. M. Harman, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1990, vol. I, No. 144.

Zone des notes

Note

Part of a collection of fifteen letters from Clerk Maxwell to Litchfield dating from 1853 to 1858 (Add. MS c.1/78-91).

Note

Letter marked "15" in red ink on front, with editorial marks throughout.

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