Sending Part XI of his own Mécanique céleste. Comments on this work.
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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.
Sending Part XI of his own Mécanique céleste. Comments on this work.
JH's geological specimen is a piece of granular quartz, found in great quantities in Berks, Wilts, and Herts. JH promised to show him some of the garnets found by [J. S.?] Henslow in Anglesea.
Apologizes for late reply. Includes news. Hopes to see JH in Berne in summer. Has forgotten price agreed on for object.
The Germans are printing many of William Herschel's papers; comments that 'there does not pass a month but something appears in print.'