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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
WASHINGTON, George. Autograph letter signed ("G:o Washington"), AS PERSIDENT, to John Churchman, Mount Vernon, 10 September 1792. 1 page, small 4to, chipped along edges, (catching portions of a few words), losses at folds repaired, browned, laid down.
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WASHINGTON, George. Autograph letter signed ("G:o Washington"), AS PERSIDENT, to John Churchman, Mount Vernon, 10 September 1792. 1 page, small 4to, chipped along edges, (catching portions of a few words), losses at folds repaired, browned, laid down.
WASHINGTON HOPES A SCIENTISTS WORK "MAY BE BENEFICIAL TO MANKIND"
THE PRESIDENT OFFERS LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION TO A TRAVELING AMERICAN SCIENTIST. "I have enclosed two short letters of introduction," Washington tells Churchman, 'to our Ministers at the Courts of Paris & London. I wish your voyage may answer your own expectation and that the discovery may be beneficial to mankind." On 5 September, Churchman wrote Washington, saying "I have proposed to go to Europe in the Ship Friendship...to prove the principles of the Magnetic Atlas... On this account I wish to make a number of observations, on the western coast of Europe, this business I perceive must be very expensive..." Churchman could get no funding from the American Congress, but did manage to conduct enough research to publish, in London in 1794, his pamphlet: The Magnetic Atlas, or Variation Charts of the Whole Terraqueous Globe; Comprising a System of the Variation and Dip of the Needle, by Which the Observations Being Truly Made, the Longitude May Be Ascertained. A fine example of the international spirit of scientific discovery in the age of Enlightenment. Published in Fitzpatrick, 32:147-148.
WASHINGTON HOPES A SCIENTISTS WORK "MAY BE BENEFICIAL TO MANKIND"
THE PRESIDENT OFFERS LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION TO A TRAVELING AMERICAN SCIENTIST. "I have enclosed two short letters of introduction," Washington tells Churchman, 'to our Ministers at the Courts of Paris & London. I wish your voyage may answer your own expectation and that the discovery may be beneficial to mankind." On 5 September, Churchman wrote Washington, saying "I have proposed to go to Europe in the Ship Friendship...to prove the principles of the Magnetic Atlas... On this account I wish to make a number of observations, on the western coast of Europe, this business I perceive must be very expensive..." Churchman could get no funding from the American Congress, but did manage to conduct enough research to publish, in London in 1794, his pamphlet: The Magnetic Atlas, or Variation Charts of the Whole Terraqueous Globe; Comprising a System of the Variation and Dip of the Needle, by Which the Observations Being Truly Made, the Longitude May Be Ascertained. A fine example of the international spirit of scientific discovery in the age of Enlightenment. Published in Fitzpatrick, 32:147-148.