Charles Babbage has been elected to Cambridge's Lucasian professorship. Thanks JH for his efforts. Hopes Babbage will fill it effectively.
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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.
Charles Babbage has been elected to Cambridge's Lucasian professorship. Thanks JH for his efforts. Hopes Babbage will fill it effectively.
Encourages JH's efforts in writing a treatise on sound. Asks JH's advice on a system of mineralogical classification that WW, as Cambridge's new professor of mineralogy, had drawn up.
Will sponsor JH for the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Discusses WW's published report of WW's Dolcoath mine experiments. Comments on mineralogical classification. Promises to send books to JH on sound and music.
Asks about JH and WW collaborating on a volume for Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Discusses aspects of mineralogical classification and crystal structure.