Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- SECTION I FROM 1806 TO 1827
- SECTION II FROM 1827 TO 1831
- SECTION III FROM 1831 TO 1836
- SECTION IV CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1831 TO 1836
- SECTION V FROM 1836 TO 1846
- SECTION VI CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1836 TO 1846
- SECTION VII FROM 1846 TO 1855
- SECTION VIII CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1846 TO 1855
- SECTION IX FROM 1856 TO 1865
- SECTION X CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1856 TO 1866
- SECTION XI FROM 1866 TO 1871
- SECTION XII CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1867 TO 1870
- LIST OF WRITINGS
- INDEX
SECTION IV - CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1831 TO 1836
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- SECTION I FROM 1806 TO 1827
- SECTION II FROM 1827 TO 1831
- SECTION III FROM 1831 TO 1836
- SECTION IV CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1831 TO 1836
- SECTION V FROM 1836 TO 1846
- SECTION VI CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1836 TO 1846
- SECTION VII FROM 1846 TO 1855
- SECTION VIII CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1846 TO 1855
- SECTION IX FROM 1856 TO 1865
- SECTION X CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1856 TO 1866
- SECTION XI FROM 1866 TO 1871
- SECTION XII CORRESPONDENCE FROM 1867 TO 1870
- LIST OF WRITINGS
- INDEX
Summary
To Sir J. Herschel.
5 Upper Gower Street, Oct. 16, 1832.
1832
My dear Sir John,—I have just duly received your Catalogue, which must in course of things be the first paper ordered for press, after those already so disposed of. I shall be very much obliged to you for all you have offered on the Catalogue, the Comet, and the Herscheliana. The crumbs which fall from a rich man's table are good—astronomically, whatever they may be gastronomically.
Have you got, or do you know anything of, Bouillaud's or Bullialdi's Astronomia Philolaica? There is a copy in the British Museum which wants the Prolegomena, which is the very part I want. The matter has reference to Vieta's Harmonicon Celeste, which has been supposed to be lost, and which I have a faint hope might be recovered. Bouillaud is reported to say that somebody stole it from Mersenne, and certainly Vossius quotes words to that effect from the Prolegomena. But my good friend M. Hachette assures me that this is a mistake, and that Bouillaud, in his unpublished MS. at Paris, says that he himself lent Vieta's MSS. to Leopold, Duke of Tuscany. If this be true, some library at Florence may yet contain it. I am the more inclined to hope this, as Schootten, in the Preface to Vieta, gives as his reason for omitting the Harmonicon Celeste, not that no copy was to be had, but that the only one he could get appeared imperfect.
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- Memoir of Augustus De MorganWith Selections from His Letters, pp. 75 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1882
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