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Found 4 collections related to Scientists -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Correspondence
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz Ms
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Richard Owen, English comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. · To S. R. Townshend Mayer, founder of the Free and Open Church Association and writer : 3 items : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Mar 1877 : (MISC 1294) : 1 page (double...
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Breen, Hugh
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
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Hugh Breen, British scientist. He superintended the moon-related computations, or "lunar reductions," at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich under Sir George Biddell Airy. To Thomas Love Peacock, novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Aug 1852 :...
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Forster, T. (Thomas), 1789-1860
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
5 items
Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster, English writer on science and phrenologist. · To [?John Cam Hobhouse], Baron Broughton, politician : 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Mar 1859 : (P'ANA 0039) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (single sheet) : from Chateau de Beaurepaire,...
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Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle | Pforz MS
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Charles Babbage, mathematician and computer pioneer. He ignited a love for mathematics in a young Ada Byron in 1833 with a presentation to her of his first analytical engine, and her Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage was...
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