Has published a pamphlet on the True Figure and Dimensions of the Figure of the Earth, which he sends for his comments. Has had no success with G. B. Airy. Has found an error in J. F. Encke's work on the comet.
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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.
Has published a pamphlet on the True Figure and Dimensions of the Figure of the Earth, which he sends for his comments. Has had no success with G. B. Airy. Has found an error in J. F. Encke's work on the comet.
Thanks for his frank statement on his pamphlet, but would like his opinion later when he has studied it more thoroughly.
Has had no further communication from JH and would be pleased to receive any further comments if JH has now read the pamphlet more thoroughly.
Comments on JH's objections. Hopes to print some of the correspondence in his forthcoming book.