Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796-1874), Belgian statistican and astronomer
- Date:
- 1837-1857
- Reference:
- MS.7555/1-9
- Part of:
- Miscellaneous: Low Countries, 18th-19th centuries
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
7 autograph letters by Quetelet, signed, 1837-1857 (nos.1-7), including letters to the antiquary James Yates (1789-1871) (nos.1 and 4; both mentioning the physiologist and chemist John Bostock (1773-1846)), the French astronomer and politican Dominique François Arago (1786-1853) (no.2, mentioning the Aurora Borealis and Humphrey Lloyd (1800-1881) of the Academy of Dublin), Thomas Meynell, Secretary of the Philosophical Society of Yorkshire (no.3) and William Whewell F.R.S. (1794-1866) (no.5); printed letter to the University of Graz from the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, signed by Quetelet as Secretary, concerning the Académie's centenary (no.8); 1 note to Quetelet, n.d. (no.9).
Publication/Creation
1837-1857
Physical description
9 items
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts