Letter from John Herschel to Captain Beaufort

PART OF:: Collection of autograph letters and notes relating to science and medicine

Made:: 1836-02-03

maker:: Herschel, John Frederick William

The letter chiefly describes Herschel's current intensive work on observing Halley's Comet, '...altogether the most beautiful thing I ever saw in a telescope'.

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Extent:: 220
250

Identifier:: MS/1130

Access:: Open Access

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