£200
WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON (IRISH MATHEMATICIAN, ASTRONOMER AND PHYSICIST 1805-1865): AN AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED 'WILLIAM R. HAMILTON' FROM THE OBSERVATORY, DUBLIN, ADDRESSED TO RICHARD TAYLOR AT THE ROYAL SOCIETY,
Letter reads:
‘I hoped to have received before now a copy of my … on Dynamics. Captain Beaufort, I am sure, would … me one such copy, if you would … to send it to him, and I should not wish to trouble him with more than one at present.’
William Rowan Hamilton was an Irish mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He was appointed the Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Trinity College Dublin and the director of the Dunsink Observatory. He worked on Fourier analysis, geometrical optics and quaternions, contributing greatly to modern linear algebra and theoretical physics.
19cm x 10cm
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