Returns a paper of Mr. Stobart, which deals with astronomical knowledge of the early Egyptians.
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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.
Returns a paper of Mr. Stobart, which deals with astronomical knowledge of the early Egyptians.
Alexander S. Herschel's education goals and job prospects. [Lucy?] has published 'Marshall's Essays.' Question about investments.
Has been too ill to write terrestrial magnetism paper for Edinburgh Review. Suggests other people to write it.
Discusses the project of erecting a large telescope in the southern hemisphere [Melbourne telescope] for observation of nebulae. Expresses reservations and makes suggestions about the project.
Sending first 64 pages of JH's Physical Geography with some insertions and corrections. Requests proofs in duplicate.
Writes to inform son John of the sudden death [after only a very brief illness] of John's sister Margaret Louisa. [The letter is quiet and accepting, praising God for the happy and blameless life that 'Looey' had led and what joy she had brought to the family.]