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Papers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79025386

Very large collection, includes manuscripts on physics (37 folders) particularly electromagnetism, geomagnetism, metrology; astronomy (80 folders); geodesics (200 folders); mathematics (50 folders); manuscripts of published works; 10 notebooks; correspondence (about 1500 folders in 80 boxes) with Airy, Bessel, Crelle, Herschel, Jacobi, Kupffer, Olbers, Petersen, Struve, Schumacher, Gerling, Harding, among others.

10 notebooks.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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