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Add. MS a/207/126
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Letter from William Ince
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- 4 Sept. 1839 (Production)
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3 pp
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11 Canonbury St., Islington - WI has read WW's 'beautiful Bridgewater treatise [Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, 4th edn. 1839] with great delight and pleasure' and would like his autograph. WI suggests that sound behaves in the same way as pebbles hitting water cause circles: 'why should not sounds pass through the air and cause displacements around in like manner?' Its reach would depend on the force of the sound and the resistance it encountered.