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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.
Thanks for promise of kind intervention on his behalf, but he believes that JH would not advise him to publish the work in England. Thinks it would be more welcome in Germany. Would like comments and corrections.
Thanks for the trouble that JH has taken in searching for a publisher for HO's work upon the natural philosophy of beauty. [Ludwig] Colding, Inspector of Waterworks, Copenhagen, who is coming to England, will collect the manuscript from JH. Direct them to 70 Old Bond St.
Has never seen the great nebula of Andromeda satisfactorily resolved; comments on this and gives some of his observations. Will be going to Brighton and then take his family to London for Easter.
Examined the nebula of Andromeda the night before last with his three-foot instrument. Comments on his observations and the sketch made by [W. C.?] Bond. Would require several good nights to make a sketch of value.
Is looking forward to receiving a copy of JH's Outlines Astr.; describes an aurora AP had seen at Alnwick Castle.
Describes HJ's formal petition against Stuart Watley's bill for reform of marriage laws.
Thanks for JH's corrections to HJ's formal petition [against marriage reform bill].
Asks for JH's comments on YV's specific double star observations. YV presents the mathematical method he uses to calculate double star orbits, which he had presented to the Paris Académie in 1847, but it was not published.
Is sending a communication to JH for insertion in the R.A.S.M.N. Seems to be some problem with understanding YV's calculations of the orbits of double stars, so YV explains his method.
Thanks JH for his interest in YV's work on double stars. YV sends a copy of a note on double stars published in the Académie des Sciences for consideration by the R.A.S. Raises a problem of agreement between Newtonian theory and observational data. YV feels astronomical studies in France are slowing down.
Thanks JH for a copy of a scientific manual (Admiralty Manual?).
Asks JH's opinion about GA's plan not to print a separate volume of magnetic and meteorological observations for 1848.
WB's latest observations of Gamma Virginis.
Will reconsider the proposal about printing observations [see JH's 1849-3-29], and get back to JH.
Sends sample of photographic lenses ground by JJ. Asks JH for formula of curvature to admit more light.
Sends note with needed facts [related to JH's early discovery of principle for ice-making machine], plus paragraph that JH may wish to insert [in notice to Athenaeum].
Encloses sequel to AS's volume on electro-biology, which AS dedicated to JH. Both are being translated into French.
Identifies the positive features of the aneroid barometer as in use by the Navy.
RS, Vice President of R.A.S., writes to JH, President, about a series of Council and membership matters.
Shall send a catalogue of double stars observed by [W. S.] Jacob. Gives some information about several measurements to establish standards.