[Antoine BECQUEREL (1788-1878)]. Edmond BECQUEREL. Autograph - Lot 110

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[Antoine BECQUEREL (1788-1878)]. Edmond BECQUEREL. Autograph - Lot 110
[Antoine BECQUEREL (1788-1878)]. Edmond BECQUEREL. Autograph letter signed (draft) to "mon cher confrère". 4 pp. folio. January 20, 1878. Long letter devoted to the scientific work of his father, Antoine-César Becquerel, who died two days earlier (January 18). "Yesterday, I was so ill that I was unable to give you any information about the museum and my father's teaching; this morning, I'm hastily passing on a few details that may be of use to you. My father founded a completely new teaching program at the museum, one that exists nowhere else, and one that is quite different from the physiology courses themselves: physics is considered in a general way, and studied especially in all the parts that concern natural history [...]".
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