Has just received invitation. Regrets delaying JH's dinner. AQ is in the countryside. Asks to be allowed to visit toward the end of the dinner.
Showing 81–100 of 154 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.
Has just received invitation. Regrets delaying JH's dinner. AQ is in the countryside. Asks to be allowed to visit toward the end of the dinner.
Thanks WH for letter on [J. T.] Graves's paper [see WH's 1829-2-25]. Admits JH could be in error concerning Graves's doctrines, but will let mathematical world form its own opinion.
Expresses views on nature of exponential functions and defines terms that may have caused confusion in [J. T.] Graves's paper, which JH found unsatisfactory. Requests JH's reply.
Regrets will be unable to join WB's party at Oxford.
Remains unconvinced by JG's explanatory note on imaginary logarithms, but will pass paper on to 'more capable hands' in the R.S.L.
Was pleased to recently admit Capt. [Francis] Beaufort as WH's proxy in Astronomical Society.
Wishing to maintain good opinion of public, JH cautiously recommends that a certain passage be omitted from a monthly notice in the Nautical Almanac.
JG's paper was read to the R.S.L. on 13 Dec. [1828]. An assessment of it is now being made concerning its publishability, the report to be given to the R.S.L. Council.
Honeymooning, JH admits that he is happier than he has ever been. Describes Leamington.
Informs CH of his wife's pregnancy; will name the child Caroline if a girl. Reports of repairs on Slough.
Congratulates JH on his marriage to Margaret Brodie Stewart.
Sending a portrait of herself; CH comments that receiving word of JH's marriage made her look 'a dozen years younger all at once.'
JH asks for a large oil portrait of CH, the size of his father's.
Sends abstract of a paper; wants JH's opinion.
Wants to know when he can visit JH.
Has seen JH's article on light in an encyclopedia, and writes to ask if JH would send JU a copy of it.
Congratulates JH on 'alteration of state' [marriage to Margaret Brodie Stewart].
Remarks about his recent tour of Italy including his meeting with G. A. A. Plana and other Italian astronomers How to observe the Moon's mass.
Will endeavor to obtain information about the fellowships at St. John's.
Can CB come down on Sunday to see about the machine?