Needs a copy of Euclid from JH; quotes some Latin poetry of Nicholas Copernicus.
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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.
Needs a copy of Euclid from JH; quotes some Latin poetry of Nicholas Copernicus.
When he met him in Paris some years ago JH was on his way to Etna. Could he direct him to a published account of his observations?
Congratulates TR on his volume of astronomical observations. Skeptical about alleged changes in Orion nebula. Feels better telescopes and drawings would be needed to confirm this. Discusses own double star observations.
Has seen JH's article on light in an encyclopedia, and writes to ask if JH would send JU a copy of it.
Regarding the monetary affairs of his sister-in-law. Has had discussions regarding his machine. Has just commenced writing a pamphlet on the state of science in England. Everyone has been asking for JH.
Will be in town on Thursday to execute the deed of attorney. Is glad to hear that Arthur Wellesley (1st Duke of Wellington) has taken an interest in the machine. Remarks on his pamphlet State of Science in England. Alterations at Slough.
Comments on several astronomical topics, viz., the publication of unreduced observations, the strange behavior of some of GA's clocks, the problem of no significant stars in some areas when sweeping the sky, and the effects of Venus and the Moon on each other's behavior; asks GA for confirmation of some star positions.
About the renovations at Slough [see JH's 1829-12-10 or earlier], and about a poem by Ovid JH had been reading.
More about the renovations at Slough [see JH's 1829-12-11], and about JH's travels from London.
Is reporting on the state of renovations at Slough.
Has been suffering with a cold; sends a few instructions for MH to carry out; hopes the renovations will be done by 6 Jan. [see JH's 1829-12-15].
About the sermon in church on the day before, and some difficulties encountered in the renovations [see JH's 1829-12-[16]].
Thanks RM for information RM sent on fossils. JH's brother-in-law, due to an accident, has, however, ended geological investigations.