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A letter to the Board of Visitors of the Greenwich Royal Observatory in reply to the calumnies of Mr. Babbage at their meeting in June 1853, and in his book entitled The exposition of 1851 / by R. Sheepshanks ; with correspondence prefixed.

Title
A letter to the Board of Visitors of the Greenwich Royal Observatory in reply to the calumnies of Mr. Babbage at their meeting in June 1853, and in his book entitled The exposition of 1851 / by R. Sheepshanks ; with correspondence prefixed.
Author
Sheepshanks, R. (Richard), 1794-1855.
Publication
London : Printed by G. Barclay, 1860.

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Additional Authors
  • South, James, Sir, 1785-1867.
  • Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871.
Description
37 p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 22 cm.
Uniform Title
  • Correspondence. Selections
  • Harvard College Library history of science project ; 01009.
Alternative Title
Correspondence.
Subject
  • Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
  • Sheepshanks, R. 1794-1855 > Correspondence
  • South, James, Sir, 1785-1867 > Correspondence
  • Royal Greenwich Observatory
  • Astronomers > England > Correspondence
Note
  • Addendum to: A letter to the Board of Visitors (1854), including letters by Richard Sheepshanks and Sir James South, published in the London Times in 1838; and part of chapter XII, "Intrigues of Science," from Charles Babbage's The Exposition of 1851 (2nd ed.)
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LCCN
^^^17019328^
OCLC
  • 83173407
  • SCSB-10581569
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library