Correspondence, 1836-1859.

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Correspondence, 1836-1859.

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Letters to Powell from Sir G.B. Airy, Captain B. Burgess, E.A. Curley, Humphrey Lloyd, W.H. Smyth, and Sir G.G. Stokes, 1836-1858, on physics and optics, including vibrations of light; 16 letters, some of them long and illustrated, from Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1855, mainly on instrumentation in astronomy, navigation, and physics (including gyroscopic mountings); also 3 letters from Powell to an amateur astronomer.

35 letters.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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