Will come and visit him on Friday afternoon.
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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.
Will come and visit him on Friday afternoon.
Regarding JH's article in Good Words.
Corrections to reports in 12 Mar. 1866 issue of Les Mondes regarding ecclesiastical titles in England, William Whewell's career, and W. T. Brande's role at Royal Mint. Also, English do not eat cats; 'catsup' is made of vegetables. Nor was JH's daughter [Maria Sophia] ever acquainted with late [Ludovico] Calandrelli.
FM has published, in translation, JH's article ['Weather and Weather Prophets' (1864)], already published in Good Words. JH was not aware that this was FM's intent, and JH warns him that some editors may be sensitive about such matters.
Writes to FM to show several ways in which a series of prisms may be used in a spectroscope to have the light exiting in the same line as it entered the spectroscope. [Appends 4 pages of diagrams.]