Describes controversy over his father's discovery of two satellites of Saturn in detail. Hopes to publish Cape Results before end of year.
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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 controversy over his father's discovery of two satellites of Saturn in detail. Hopes to publish Cape Results before end of year.
Returns the account of Lord Rosse's telescope with many thanks. Weather has not been good for observations, but gives some observations on the comets.
Smith, Elder & Co. received JH's revised proofs. Encloses page of 'Reduced Observations' for JH's approval. Details of printing process.
Gives JH directions to Kew Observatory.
Planning to edit a volume of hexameter verse translations. Wishes to include JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.'