Suggests how WW should write his contribution giving instructions for tidal observations for JH's Admiralty Manual. Notes the death of JH's butler.
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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.
Suggests how WW should write his contribution giving instructions for tidal observations for JH's Admiralty Manual. Notes the death of JH's butler.
Gives directions for and raises questions concerning WW's contribution to JH's Admiralty Manual.
Discusses WW's essay on tides for JH's Admiralty Manual, aspects of JH's Outlines Astr., and planetary astronomy in general.
Discusses revisions in WW's and Frederick Beechey's papers in JH's Admiralty Manual. Also comments on drafting Outlines Astr., the controversy over the discovery of Neptune, and William Lassell's discovery of a new Saturnian satellite.
Comments on a philosophical paper by [Robert Leslie] Ellis, sent him by WW. Discusses his own and Ellis's views on physical causality.