Provides information on glass made by HS.
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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.
Provides information on glass made by HS.
Lists dimensions of the equatorial telescope at Paris Observatory.
Answers JH's inquiry concerning JD's telescope manufacturing process.
Confirms measurements of a transit circle.
Wants information for the proposed visit to Auvergne. Regarding the motion of the sun.
Relating to his holiday experience in France.
Regarding the geographical position of places in France. Comments on JH's paper on light and colors.
Encloses a paper and gives his comments on it.
Regarding telescopes in various places.
Informing him that he has just seen an original portrait of William Herschel in a dealer's shop in Bath.
Further regarding the portrait of William Herschel, and his advice to the present owner.
Saw him at the B.A.A.S. meeting at Leeds. Raises query regarding the sun and Thomas Paine's views on deism.
Advises him to put his house in the hands of a temporary tenant so that he can rest.
Regarding the faculty pew in the new church. Is sorry he was out when JH called. Hears he is contemplating a change in his property.
Will be pleased to see him on Wednesday. Hopes he will stay the night.
Sending parts of his paper on the Lagocyclic curve.
Has used JH's writings for his lectures, but would like a simplification of statements dealing with the relation of temperature and pressure in the atmosphere.
Thanks for his suggestion for a lecture on graphical processes. Has had little communication with W. R. Birt since the latter left Kew. Has returned the book by Karl Kreil. Would be pleased to receive the Russian Observations.
Would like JH's support for his application for a position of examiner at East India Company's College. Cannot find out what he has done with Karl Kreil's book. Will send him a copy of his lecture.
Would like nominations for the Copley and Royal medals.