News from Cambridge, including information about the new observatory.
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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.
News from Cambridge, including information about the new observatory.
News of Cambridge University.
Inquires after JH's health. When will JH visit Slough? Efforts to find new footman to replace Mr. Brown, who leaves Thursday.
Asks JH to vouch for Richard Copeland, who expects navy promotion. Directed two footmen to call on JH for interviews.
Forwards ham from Susan White and letter from Richard Copeland. Tenant farmer Mr. Davenport refuses to pay rent to William Herschel. Ask Mr. Blagrave for legal advice. Hired new footman. JH is invited to Miss De Luc's party on Monday.
A covering note written for an enclosed letter (not available), all of it seeming to relate to filling a Cambridge position, for which J. S. Henslow seems eminently qualified.
Discussion and criticism of paper by a [J. M. H.] Wronski on methods in theory of equilibrium of fluids.
Sends corrections to Polaris observations.
Would like to visit this week. Has had an attack of rheumatic fever. Gives tables of orbit of a comet.
Regarding barometric observations.
Inquires after a case of Year-books previously dispatched. Cost £14-4-0. No answers to his letters of May, June or August.
Would like to borrow one of H. C. Schumacher's books from JH. Should they print Giuseppe Piazzi's communication on the eclipse?
Good health in both families. JH's letter about Alps was interesting. Will toast William Herschel's birthday tomorrow. What does WW owe JH for Astronomical Society dues?
Sends form signed by SY's eldest son [George] to JH, who will stand proxy for SY's son, still at sea. SY eager to exchange minerals with JH. Invites JH to Formosa Cottage after Christmas.
Sixteen-month delay in receipt of FB's observations. Willing to publish James Bradley's observations of Halley's Comet but questions accuracy of Nathaniel Bliss's. Sends John Brinkley's analysis [of April 1821 comet observed by Basil Hall in southern hemisphere]. Please describe Georg Reichenbach's new [transit] circle at Königsburg.
Responds to FB's much delayed answer to JH's 1820-5-9; comments on some observational matters.
Has been absent the whole summer and fears that his letter acknowledging his election to the Astronomical Society may have gone astray. Is grateful for the honor. Sends a paper of his own on a new method of making observations with the heliotrope. Comments on the usefulness of this instrument.