JH and James Grahame visited [Jan van den] Bosch's agricultural colony in Frederick's-Oort for 2,400 urban itinerants. Leave tonight for Haarlem, Hague, and Rotterdam.
Showing 1–8 of 8 items
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.
JH and James Grahame visited [Jan van den] Bosch's agricultural colony in Frederick's-Oort for 2,400 urban itinerants. Leave tonight for Haarlem, Hague, and Rotterdam.
[Responding to JS's letter dated 1822, i.e., #655,] acknowledges receipt of mail. Regrets delay but wished to examine the differences in electrical results between [J. W. A.] Pfaff and JH. Remains certain about results and request that this letter remain 'private.'
Has had a letter from the Secretary of the Dijon Academy offering him and CB the title of Non-Resident Associate of the Academy. Is there any chance of seeing him in the near future?
Query regarding the construction of a model of a machine for CB. CB's letter to Humphry Davy about his engines. He will be visiting the Netherlands shortly. P. S. Laplace has sent him details of his recent researches into gases. Hopes the family are well after their recent visit to Devon.
Accompanies a paper JH was submitting to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Discusses motion of light rays in Apophyllite and various optical writings of DB.
Sends JH's 1823 paper 'Absorption of Light by Coloured Media' to Royal Society of Edinburgh. Approves DB's illustration of polarized light in mineral apophyllite. Corrects DB's quotation from JH's letter regarding crystals observed on Mont Blanc.
Invites RJ to meet James Grahame, who is joining JH for trip to Netherlands. Return Éphémèrides du citoyen directly to Grahame. Describes return to Cambridge by JH, George Peacock, and William Whewell after their visit with RJ at Brasted. JH's sketch of Brasted Church. Alludes to [death of Grahame's first wife and oldest daughter].
Sends payment for packet of books.