Discusses the poor health of Heinrich Olbers, and Johann Encke's inability to acquire the necessary instruments. Wants JH to send to CH a few of her 'Indexes.'
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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.
Discusses the poor health of Heinrich Olbers, and Johann Encke's inability to acquire the necessary instruments. Wants JH to send to CH a few of her 'Indexes.'
Feels distant from her family in England. Notes that the French occupation has changed Hanover from what it was when CH left in 1772.
Discussing William Herschel's financial difficulties, CH confides that 'she never felt satisfied with the support your father received toward his undertakings, and far less with the ungracious manner in which it was granted.' Regrets WH was not able to do more work with the 40-ft. reflecting telescope.
Writing her memoirs, CH sends for JH's perusal an account of her youth.
She 'can only think of what is past, and is for ever forgetting the present.'
Thanks JH for sending his second catalog of double stars; remarks that 'by the manner in which you gentlemen now attack the starry heavens, it seems that there will soon remain nothing to be discovered.'