Can he recollect the origin of Table V in the Report of the Committee on Meteorology showing the elastic force of aqueous vapor? James Apjohn says JL calculated it but JL has no recollection. JL's mother is in a hopeless state.
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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.
Can he recollect the origin of Table V in the Report of the Committee on Meteorology showing the elastic force of aqueous vapor? James Apjohn says JL calculated it but JL has no recollection. JL's mother is in a hopeless state.
Many years ago JH questioned him about the calculation of the perturbations in an inclined orbit, the satellites of Herschel [Uranus] for example. Has only recently seen the light. Is now confident that he can calculate the perturbations of any planet in any orbit. Gives details and would be glad of JH's comments.