JH's notes and version of the first canto of Dante's Inferno has made him attempt a version in the original rhyming meter. Would like his comments.
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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.
JH's notes and version of the first canto of Dante's Inferno has made him attempt a version in the original rhyming meter. Would like his comments.
Has received her version of the first canto of Dante's Inferno. Did she know it has already been done in an almost perfect way by Mr. Ford, prebend of Exeter? Comments on various points of her translation.
Much obliged for his suggestions regarding the comet; comments on these suggestions. His own observations were made on the comet, not its tail. Would be pleased for him to visit his observatory when in London.
Comments on WH's finding the carbon line in WH's spectroscopic examinations of cometary tails.
Thanks for his article on musical scales. Misses a description of the elements of the simple scale. Comments on various theories.
Death of William H. Barton.
Wants information for Sir Edward Colebrooke on the involvement of his father [H. T. Colebrooke] in the formation of the Royal Astronomical Society. Cannot ask Charles Babbage because his memory is poor.
Thanks WS for 'Genevieve' translation. Will not continue the Dante because a Terza Rima translation has been done previously. The sun is behaving oddly.
Sends first pages of JH's work on theory of probability. Asks for modifications.
Comments on WT's paper on geological time. Unsatisfied with the efficiency of tidal friction in retarding the rotation of the earth. Considers effect of external attraction on a rotating body to relate to momentum.
Reasons why the sun has been so hot recently. Thanks for the paper on the scale. Comments on this. Sends a mathematical problem.
Many thanks for his article on the musical scale. Will try to understand it when she has more leisure.