Is pleased JH can look his trial in the face. Regarding logic. Has seen a neat construction by JH's son.
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Is pleased JH can look his trial in the face. Regarding logic. Has seen a neat construction by JH's son.
Has heard of the heavy blow that has fallen on the Herschels [death of JH's daughter Margaret Louisa]. Hopes they are all bearing up.
Many thanks for his new projection of the sphere. J. L. Lagrange has two papers of 1779 on the subject. John Lee elected president at the R.A.S. He himself has resigned from the council.
Has not heard from him for a long time. Did he receive his red and black logarithms? JH's son Alexander has sent him a mathematical problem. George Bishop has died and the observatory and instruments are to be sold. Sends two riddles. Sees that JH has proved that the sun is liquid fire.
Sends a sonnet on the comet. Regarding works on spheroidal triangles. Supposes he may use the Feldhausen anecdote. Regarding the law of facility.
Has sent the packet of letters written to Francis Baily to Greenwich, but kept back one or two including the one on the R.S.L. Secretaryship. Is told that James South is now suffering from deafness. Has sent a paper on errors of observation to Cambridge. Comments on this.
Regarding the unsuitableness of the weather for astronomers. Sends an answer to one of JH's equations. Regarding the quarrels of Sir James South. Sends some nursery rhymes that seem appropriate.