Autograph letters, 1819-1867 and n.d.

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Autograph letters, 1819-1867 and n.d.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78354815

Letters on scientific and other matters, to various correspondents. Includes material on photography, and on the kaleidoscope. Items to scientists are letters to D. F. J. Arago (1786-1853), Leonard Horner (1785-1864), Robert Hunt (1807-1887), Joseph Bancroft Reade (1801-1870); and William Scoresby (1789-1857). The collection contains a letter to Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881).

51 letters.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887

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Robert Hunt was an English physicist and author. From the description of Letters, 1842-1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173465747 From the guide to the Robert Hunt letters, 1842-1879, 1842-1879, (American Philosophical Society) Apprenticed to a surgeon in Paddington, London and studied anatomy with Joshua Brookes (1761-183) F. R. S. 1819. Afterwards with a physician and qas for four years in charage of a dispensary in London. Later with a firm of chemical manufa...

Brewster, David, 1781-1868

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Natural philosopher and Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Autograph letters, 1819-1867 and n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78354815 Scottish physicist. From the description of David Brewster papers, 1836-1857, [Edinburgh]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847956 Educated for the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh University, but due to a form of nervousness gave up a clerical life and in 1802 became editor of the 'Edinburgh Ma...