Cannot find observation of comet of 1759 in [James] Bradley's papers. Discusses eighteenth-century astronomical observations. Can send JH particulars if he wants them.
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The Sir John Herschel Collection
The preparation of the print Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds, Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998, viii + 828 pp) which was funded by the National Science Foundation, took ten years. It was accomplished by a team of seventeen professors, visiting scholars, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and staff working at the University of Notre Dame.
The first online version of Calendar was created in 2009 by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy, working at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium, and it is that data that has now been reformatted for incorporation into Ɛpsilon.
Further information about Herschel, his correspondence, and the editorial method is available online here: http://historydb.adlerplanetarium.org/herschel/?p=intro
No texts of Herschel’s letters are currently available through Ɛpsilon.
Cannot find observation of comet of 1759 in [James] Bradley's papers. Discusses eighteenth-century astronomical observations. Can send JH particulars if he wants them.
Has found information regarding [James] Bradley's observation of 1759 comet [see SR's 1824-2-26]. Will send copies if JH wants them. Discusses [James] South's concern for Bradley's observations.
Releases JH from silence. Oxford University will publish portions of [James Bradley's] observations of comet of 1759 [see SR's 1829-3-18, 1829-3-25]. Never expected SR would trace and recover them.
Discusses [James] Bradley's observations of double stars. Asks JH for assistance.
Thanks JH for letter [see SR's 1830-9-6]. Discusses publication of [James] Bradley's observations. Congratulates JH on confirming satellites of Uranus seen by William Herschel.
Discusses [James] Bradley's observations and possibility of double stars [see SR's 1830-9-6]. Seems no double stars are readily apparent. Discusses another experiment.
Discusses eighteenth-century observations from Greenwich. Describes curious observations of stars in Gamma Virginis and Polaris.
Received packet from JH. Will attend meeting at Greenwich in June. Describes [James] Bradley's observations of stars in Gamma Virginis.
Thanks JH for paper on micrometrical measurement of double stars. Has already promised to vote for someone else for Boden Professorship [see JH's 1832-2-25].
Sends paper for Philosophical Magazine with reference to JH's communication in the last issue. JH may annex comments, unless he will cut SR 'to pieces.'
Asks JH to come to Oxford to receive honorary degree of D.C.L. Invites Herschels to Oxford Observatory.