Autograph letter signed : Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, to Professor Nichol, 1857 Aug. 15.

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Autograph letter signed : Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, to Professor Nichol, 1857 Aug. 15.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270131726

Thanking him for a copy of his Cyclopaedia of Physical Sciences, and criticizing at length those portions of it that deal with "the undulatory theory of light, as connected with the phenomena of polarization."

1 item (4 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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