Passionately protests bill before Parliament for compulsory adoption of French metric system, 'a piece of French national vanity.'
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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.
Passionately protests bill before Parliament for compulsory adoption of French metric system, 'a piece of French national vanity.'
Thanks WS for his Iliad translation. JH has just finished Book 3 of his own translation of the Iliad.
Fragment of a letter discussing diffraction, JH's son's journey to observe eclipse and strong polarization of sun's corona, evidence of vast solar atmosphere.
Note with some photographs.
Has kept the petition and will forward it after the meeting. His brother is now in the 16th book of the Iliad.
Will be pleased for JH to see the house and grounds at any time.