LettreNorman Lockyer à Henri Poincaré, 12 février 1892

Feb 12 [1892]
South Kensington — Science and Art Department1

Dear Professor Poincaré,

I have not had an opportunity of inquiring lately after Sylvester’s health.2 The last time I saw him he looked very ill & told me he was arranging a consultation as he was convinced there was something very wrong.

When I hear again I will let you know.

I shall be delighted to print your letter.3

Very sincerely yours,

Norman Lockyer


Apparat critique 

  1. The Science and Art Department of the British government was a sub-division of the Education Department, with oversight of the Royal College of Science, where Lockyer was professor of astronomical physics and director of the solar physics laboratory. In 1907, the Royal College of Science became part of the Imperial College of Science and Technology Gay (2007).↩︎

  2. Lockyer had recently written Poincaré that J.J. Sylvester was ill ( Lockyer à Poincaré, 1892-01-26), apparently in response to a query from Poincaré. It seems that Poincaré then asked Lockyer for details of Sylvester’s condition.↩︎

  3. See Poincaré (1892), published 03.03.1892, and reedited in Walter, ed. (2007), Poincaré à Tait, 1892-02-24). Poincaré reacted to Peter Guthrie Tait’s critical review of his Sorbonne lectures on thermodynamics Tait (1892), reedited in Walter, ed., (2007).↩︎


Références

Poincaré, Henri. 1892. “Poincaré’s ‘Thermodynamics’.” Nature 45: 414–15.↩︎

Tait, Peter Guthrie. 1892. “Poincaré’s Thermodynamics.” Nature 45: 245–46.↩︎

Walter, Scott A., ed. 2007. La correspondance d’Henri Poincaré, Volume 2: La correspondance entre Henri Poincaré et les physiciens, chimistes et ingénieurs. Basel: Birkhäuser.↩︎

Gay, H. 2007 The History of Imperial College London, 1907–2007: Higher Education and Research in Science, Technology and Medicine. Imperial College Press, London.↩︎

Titre
Norman Lockyer à Henri Poincaré, 12 février 1892
Incipit
I have not had an opportunity of inquiring lately after Sylvester's health.
Date
1892-02-12
Adresse
Paris
Lieu
Londres
Chapitre
Norman Lockyer
Lieu d’archivage
Private collection 75017
Type
fr Lettre autographe signée
Section (dans le livre)
2
Droits
Archives Henri Poincaré
Nombre de pages
2
Langue
en
Licence
CC BY-ND 4.0

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