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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.
Describes JH's public Latin examination in algebra yesterday. James Grahame and sister were dangerously ill, but Grahame returned to Cambridge. [Addendum:] Newspaper clipping naming students (including JH) who received B.A. degrees at Cambridge on 16 Jan. 1813.
Two weeks of examinations begin tomorrow. Experiments writing with glass pen. Describes glassmaker's methods. Suggests application to micrometers.
Although nominated for the Analytical Society by Edward Bromhead, JB declines membership. Praises the society as 'highly calculated to the promotion of mathematical literature.'
Is now a clerk for [London and Edinburgh] shipping company. Does not know if he should mention his employment to Mr. Watts.
Angry at self and whole world except JW. Has been drunk and travelling. Met brilliant but 'not beautiful' woman. Wonders why he left Cambridge; requests news and offers advice.
Asks JH to come to Slough to visit Alexander Herschel before he leaves.
Requests JH obtain a paper by Joseph Banks for William Herschel.
Sending an equation in calculus for him to give opinion.
Answer to CB's equation. Bring something to discuss at the forthcoming meeting of the Analytical Society.
Further comments on his original query [see CB's 1812-6-20] regarding the equation in calculus.
Further comment on the calculus equation sent by CB.
Sending details of some new theorems he has come across.
Sends on part of letter for CB to complete and forward.
About the mathematical formulation for the summation of any series.
Giving equations.
Regarding equational problems.
Finding it difficult to finish his memoir. Gives some integral equations for his comments. Hopes to see him at Slough soon.
[Addressed to WN as 'Editor of the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts from 'A Lover of Modern Analysis' [JH], this letter] derives by a new method various analytical formulae for the tangent and cotangent.
[Addressed to WN as 'Editor of the Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts from 'A Lover of Modern Analysis' [JH], this letter] derives by a new method various analytical formulae for the sine and cosine.
Has been quite ill; talks about one journey.