Autograph letter from M.F. Lomax to William Whewell, written from Ribblesdale Place, Preston and dated 1 January 1846
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Autograph letter from M.F. Lomax to William Whewell, written from Ribblesdale Place, Preston and dated 1 January 1846
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Will you condescend to answer the enquiries of one of the million?
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Will you condescend to answer the enquiries of one of the million?
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No
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An autograph letter from M.F. Lomax to William Whewell, written from Ribblesdale Place, Preston and dated 1 January 1846.
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M.F. Lomax asks questions about the nebuar hypothesis proposed in William Whewell’s Bridgwater treatise. He also enquires as to whether or not Sir Isaac Newton was a Unitarian, writing: ‘they see no difference between Newton and Voltaire and Laplace (not that they know any more than their names) and class them altogether as a set of clever learned infidels’.
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4 pp.
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1 January 1846
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