Invitation to dine with him. Regarding Richard Taylor the printer.
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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.
Invitation to dine with him. Regarding Richard Taylor the printer.
Regarding the printing for the Astronomical Society. Errors in FB's astronomical tables.
Thanks for the two communications. J. F. Encke's work on the Ephemeris. Francis Beaufort's remarks concerning Richard Taylor the printer. Hoping for fine weather for observations.
Further invitation to visit him at Tytherley. Will be using a new telescope. William Wallace's paper for the Monthly Notices.
Instructions on how to reach Tytherley. Has not seen Encke's Comet yet.
His own paper on moon culminating stars for 1829 is now printed. Time Encke's Comet was visible. Foreign encouragement for science. Remarks on pendulum experiments.
Regarding his own forthcoming experiments with his telescopes.
Regarding his own experiments with light.
Regarding Richard Taylor the printer and the printing of the papers of the R.A.S.
Regarding the climate in Northern Australia.
Conveys the best thanks from the directors of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana for the liberal settlement over his article 'Light.' He will receive a fine paper copy of the encyclopaedia in due course.
Wishes to obtain a compensating pendulum clock for the new observatory of Archduke Maximilian. Can JH advise on one and the price? Has started several series of observations.
Has not heard from Thomas Young about the reduction of the Parramatta Observations. James Dunlop will not carry out this work; best to leave it to the one named. Will be coming to London soon as the New South Wales Bill comes up, so will call on JH.
Mr. Knowles has left college and taken the plates of quartz that illustrated the experiment so well. Sends further explanations of the experiment he previously mentioned to JH.
The Lucasian Professorship is vacant and he would be pleased if JH would consider standing for the position.
Babbage has been elected Lucasian Professor by a large majority. Is pleased by the unselfish service of JH to scientific research.
Has kept her promise to JH not to speak to the subject of their conversation [see JH's 1828-11-20]; she is pleased with JH's honorable behavior.
Regrets the error over the double stars. Is grateful to the Astronomical Society for the honor conferred on him. Regarding the observations of stars that he would like to deposit in a library.
A note accompanying a volume [unidentified], which ES feels JH must read.
Writes to report continuing improvement in Isabella's health, and to thank JH for the prints and drawings [see JH's 1828-11-27].