Thanks AS for his letter. Offers congratulations to newly married Maria Herschel. Will be returning to Cambridge to give his 46th course of lectures.
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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.
Thanks AS for his letter. Offers congratulations to newly married Maria Herschel. Will be returning to Cambridge to give his 46th course of lectures.
Written for Mary Somerville. Requests information on sunspots and on William Huggins's observations of nebulae. Mary is recovering from illness. They send regards to Herschels.
Notes for a letter to JH and son. Intends to discuss the 'phenomenon of October 1854.' Will continue observation of proper motion of stars. Will mention 'savants' who disagree and who agree with his opinions. Means to request that JH continue corresponding.
Lists works sent to JH. Discusses hypothesis concerning meteors and the atmosphere. Mentions his work 'Sur la physique du globe.' Cites Mr. Bravais. Attaches note sent to AQ by Royal Academy of Brussels, listing works JH should have received. Encloses list of errata for the Bulletin de l'académie royale de belgique, ser. 2, 15, No. 6.
Lists works JH should have received. Asks JH to take another look in his library. Has received more on meteors. Sees no objection to a higher terrestrial atmosphere. Will send Histoire des sciences mathématique et physique chez les belges.
Sends JH other copies of works not received. Also work on international statistics. Has found out that JH has written an article on probability. Would like to use it.
Was in Paris when JH's letter arrived. Will print JH's article. Asks if there are changes to be made. Discusses future project Physique sociale, which will include theory of probability applied to ethics and political science.
Asks JH to send memorandum about position of senior clerks at Royal Mint.
Having read JH's article on light, sends observations on peculiar effects of light, particularly 'terrestrial refraction,' on rifle-shooting targets.
Discusses several causes of light disturbing aim in rifle-shooting. Hopes JH will be able to enlighten JS and others on this subject.
Sends copy of JT's '3rd Memoir,' along with specimens of liquid mercury ethyl and mercury methyl from discoverers Edward Frankland and B. F. Duppa.
Thanks for note explaining refusal to undertake another new subject, JS's mathematical paper. Updates on algebra books.
Sends JH complete set of rain papers and monthly circulars. Is grateful for JH's interest in meteorology.
Friction between Eastern Province and Western Province in Parliament causes delay in J. S. Parlby case.
Comments on George Witt's work on silvering glass mirrors and on JH's Telescope. States problems with his Newtonian telescope. Works on designs for a binocular telescope.
Asks if JH anticipated the results of W. L. Newman's work on lens curvature.
Thanks JH for compliments on his work [History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability]. Suggests changes in the Wilhelm Struve probability problem.
Thanks JH for contributions to his book on language.
Announces a National School quarterly meeting.
Doubts that JH put his approval on an article about shooting stars in the 'upper atmosphere' in The Intellectual Observer.