Outlining a series of experiments based on JH's work on Light.
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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.
Outlining a series of experiments based on JH's work on Light.
Soliciting articles for People's Magazine.
Agrees to allow Lord Oxmantown [Laurence Parsons] to add JH's remarks to Lord Oxmantown's paper.
Has received the R.A.S.M.N. containing the article on the movements of the asteroids. Has addressed a letter on the subject to the Moniteur universel and would be glad of JH's comments.
Comments on UL's paper on meteors. Outlines the nebular theory of the solar system.
Sends an extract from JH's letter, which has been printed in the Moniteur.
Has lost Alexander Herschel's Paris address. Otto Struve will be visiting the Observatory on 10 Aug.
Sends the remaining papers belonging to JH. Is grateful for his assistance.
Sends a pamphlet by a friend of his, Mr. Thornton, on the squaring of the circle; would like JH's opinion on this pamphlet.
Does not think Mr. Thornton's pamphlets solve the problem of squaring the circle as the circle is 3/4 of the circumscribed square. Comments further on these theories.
Please accept his grateful thanks for his comments on Mr. Thornton's squaring of the circle. Will send these comments on to Thornton.
Regrets he was out when JH's son called, but has sent him a card for Saturday. Pleased to hear that JH supports RM over his David Livingstone appeal. Suspects that Livingstone will turn up after a year.
Is bewildered in his old age by the new theories of James Croll on the glacial epochs. What does JH think of these theories? Sees no proof of glacial action in Paleozoic times.
Is grateful for a copy of 'Spaziergang' in Latin verses. Envies JH's varied accomplishments. Fourth edition of his Siluria will be issued in October. Relates how James Croll was appointed a geological surveyor in Scotland.
Thanks for kind reply and favorable opinion on his Geometry. Arthur Cayley also expressed a favorable opinion on his writings. Would like a testimonial from JH for the Chair of Mathematics at Cork.
Cannot supply testimonial as he has no knowledge of any other of JM's writings, nor does he know him personally.
His brother [John H. Nelson] is at Brighton, and may be coming to London soon. Bodily health improves but mental health shows no improvement.
Read JH's letter to his brother and it did not seem to affect him one way or another. Mental health is no better.
Laurence Parsons (Lord Oxmantown) has gone to Ireland to discharge his duties of High Sheriff. Sends finished proof of the engraving of Orion; comments on this. Has not worked on the nebula himself for many years. [J. K.?] Hunter was a good artist.
What does JH think of the idea of establishing a meteorological observatory on the Pic du Midi?