Became interested in astronomy as a result of reading the papers of William Herschel. FW read these at Hanover in the collection of Caroline Herschel. FW is now trying to arrange a visit to JH.
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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.
Became interested in astronomy as a result of reading the papers of William Herschel. FW read these at Hanover in the collection of Caroline Herschel. FW is now trying to arrange a visit to JH.
Needs to make some adjustment about FW's visit to JH, as FW was not aware that Sunday trains in Britain run differently from other days.
Thanks JH for the day spent with him. FW tells JH about the situation of the grave of Caroline Herschel. Includes silhouette pictures found at Mrs. Groskopf's.