His views on seeing Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex) about rooms for the R.A.S., and the actions of the Duke.
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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.
His views on seeing Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex) about rooms for the R.A.S., and the actions of the Duke.
Has met Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex), who would be pleased to receive a deputation. The Council of the R.A.S. have appointed a deputation, including JH. F. W. Bessel's innovation with observations.
Introducing a friend, Lieut. Lister Shaw, who has traversed the course of the River Amazon.
Observations on [double] stars. Congratulations [on birth of Isabella Herschel].
Announces the birth of JH's second daughter, Isabella, of whom JH draws a picture; all are well.
Margaret Herschel's health is good, and baby Isabella is blooming; JH draws another sketch of Isabella.
Pleased by account of JH's wife and new baby [Isabella]. Copies passage and diagram from letter of Welsh clergyman trying to construct sound amplifier for pulpit. Asks JH to offer solutions. Husband L. P. Wilson sends regards. Forwarded JH's letters to FW's sister [Maria Edgeworth] in Ireland.
Returns the collection of optical writings that JH had sent. Comments on the controversy over the nature of light. Criticizes paper by Richard Potter attacking JH and other wave theorists of light.