To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 January [1874]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Jan. 24th
My dear Sir
I have ordered my bookseller to send Clerk Maxwells’ book to you published by Macmillan & Co & I suppose it will reach you in a few days.— Please present it from me to M. Kowalevsky.2
Maxwell says M. Hirn has lately published on same subject;3 “but the dynamics are at best, moderate”—
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
But I enclose the Card
[Enclosure]4
On the Stability of the Motion of Saturns Rings Macmillan & Co 1859
M Hirn, of thermodynamics fame has also published a memoir lately at Mühlhausen or somewhere5 The dynamics thereof are moderate at best.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hirn, Gustave-Adolphe. 1872. Mémoire sur les conditions d’équilibre et sur la nature probable des anneaux de Saturne. Paris: Gaulthier-Villars.
Maxwell, James Clerk. 1859. On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co.
Summary
Has ordered James Clerk Maxwell’s book [On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings (1859)] as a present for Sofya Kovalevsky.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9253
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Institut Mittag-Leffler
- Physical description
- ALS 1p encl pc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9253,” accessed on 4 October 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9253.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
