Of talking fishes, a great meteor falling in Tripoli, and the 'madness of man' in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War.
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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.
Of talking fishes, a great meteor falling in Tripoli, and the 'madness of man' in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War.
Comments about some pieces of German poetry.
Recounts various reports of phenomena in the sky related to the 'great Moscow phenomenon' of 'mock Suns and inverted Arches.'
Thanks for the clippings about an aurora; thoughts on the relationship of poetry to music.
Thanks for the gift of a book of verse.
Acknowledges receipt of a communication about a comet/meteor from EC.
Note accompanying something being discussed in the music world.
Thanks for some verses; comments on the current state of Indian religious society.
Apology for delay in returning a biographical note; some concern about state of Indian society.
Sends a work on physical geography in return for a receipt of some lines of poetry.
Thanks for a number of items of poetry and sends EC a translation of some poetry by Friedrich Schiller.
Thanks for a collection of poems; comments on lunar eclipses.
About a great meteor seen earlier in the year; JH is slowly translating Homer's Iliad.
Coincidences between observations of a meteor seen by EC and another account.
Comments about translating Homer and about other translations appearing.
Comments on the unevenness of generations; speculations about life on Uranus; expects to finish translation of the Iliad by the end of the year.
Has sent his translation of Homer's Iliad to the publisher and is having a collection of the best portions sent to EC.
Main object in translating Homer was to 'wipe off the stigma cast on English hexameters by such people as Tennyson.'
Thanks for EC's poetry; comments on other translators of Homer, and on mythical beasts.
On the 'Great Phenomenon' of 13 and 14 Nov. [meteor shower]; JH appears to believe that there is an annular ring of very minute planets circling the sun.