About the location of Julius Caesar's landing in Britain and the location of subsequent battles.
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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.
About the location of Julius Caesar's landing in Britain and the location of subsequent battles.
Still pursuing Julius Caesar's path in Britain [see GA's 1851-3-29]; wants local information from JH.
Are there any earthworks in the wood near Hawkhurst [see GA's 1851-11-4]?
Offers some explanations for the reports in the papers [see JH's 1852-9-6] of seeing strange objects in the heavens; GA calls it 'hemiplegia.'
Apologizes for not being at home when JH called, and thanks JH for his family's kindness to GA's children during the past winter.
About the possible use of decimal subdivisions of the pound weight on the docks and at the Customs House.
Asks JH to let an examination be made of the standard pound kept at the Royal Mint [see WM's 1853-6-8].
Seeks instructions about return of the measures to the Royal Mint.
Is confident the letter [see JH's 1850-12-15], which is supposedly from François Arago, is a forgery.
Writes to JH to re-arrange a time for a meeting.
Sends a revision of the weight of the standard pound deposited at the Royal Mint [see JH's 1853-9-9].
Committee set up by the B.A.A.S. to consider methods of observing the forthcoming eclipse of the sun; observations on this.
Is inquiring further into the usefulness of the weights [see JH's 1851-9-27].
Has sent testimonial regarding John Hind to William Parsons (3rd Earl of Rosse).
Regarding the observations on the recent eclipse of the sun.
Regarding his recent tour around the Kent and Sussex borders.
Giving his views on an observatory being linked with a university.
Concerning GA's eclipse lecture and [G.] Seyffarth's claims regarding eclipse observations.
Results of observation of transits at Greenwich and Paris.
Requesting comments on enclosed papers concerning Greenwich Observatory.