Sending a long letter proving one of JH's theories regarding the sun and confirmation of one of William Herschel's observations concerning Saturn.
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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.
Sending a long letter proving one of JH's theories regarding the sun and confirmation of one of William Herschel's observations concerning Saturn.
Thanks for JH's remarks on his own 'What is matter'; comments on these. Also regarding JH's theory of the sun's repulsive force and William Herschel's observations on the strange shape of Saturn.
Will mention JH's subject for investigation to Sir William Thomson. Is busy with Committee on Ships of War.
Sends an abstract of his research entitled 'The Effects of Tide on Planetary Motion.'
Replying to JH's letter of 24 Jan. 1871. Thanking him for his suggestions. Has not seen JH's Cape Observations. Has seen report of R. W. Bunsen's experiments. Comments on these experiments.
Is grateful for the interest he takes in her son and for his letter. Comments on the German war. Has a house full of visitors. It has been very cold and they have been without water.
Has sent a work on the metric system in France, which includes JH's own valuable lecture.
Is grateful for his comments on his own paper on vision. Would he refer him to the work by Mr. Chopal on lens.
Has sent JH a copy of his new book [The Sun].