Approves naming the new planet Neptune and continued designation of JH's father's planet as Uranus. Suggests reasons and alternatives.
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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.
Approves naming the new planet Neptune and continued designation of JH's father's planet as Uranus. Suggests reasons and alternatives.
Speculates on name for JR's 'hot and cold basins' and on causes of equatorial heat and polar cold.
Believes he has worked out the German notation of star positions [see GA's 1847-2-1].
Uses GA's comments [see GA's 1847-5-10] finally to achieve clarification of Thomas Henderson's calculations.
Has the papers by [Thomas] Henderson but they do not contain much information.
On a puzzling aspect of [Thomas] Henderson's papers. One column in his tables seems to have been altered in someone else's handwriting. Wants to know the origin of these corrections, and how Henderson's tables ought to be printed. Offers several options.
Has figured out why [Thomas] Henderson's tables [see JH's 1847-5-6] appear as they do.
Sends RS his address so that RS or G. B. Airy can send proofs.
Answers questions raised by RS concerning the preface JH was writing for N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars. Objects to JH being seen as responsible for the contents of the book itself, even though he served on the first two B.A.A.S. committees dealing with the reduction of Lacaille's stars.
Further to resolving the time conflict [see GA's 1847-5-15] and sending out invitations for Visitation Day.
Gives GA an address for the next while, and tells GA what JH has done about invitations for Visitation Day [see JH's 1847-5-19].
Will send measurements of the requested stars [see GA's 1847-5-15] as soon as JH can consult the appropriate papers.
Asks CB's advice on how correctly to avoid attending a Queen's ball JH has been commanded to attend.
JH's Cape Results is ready for publication. Gratitude for support of late Hugh Percy. Regrets HP did not live to see completion of Cape Results. Trusts that AP will continue support. Asks for interview. Encloses correspondence between HP and JH to show how arrangement originated.
Comments on the paper he has sent him. Finds it difficult to give an opinion as so much verification is required.