Difficulty understanding notation used in [FJ]'s pamphlet on musical scales. JH's comments on [FJ]'s formulas and conclusions.
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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.
Difficulty understanding notation used in [FJ]'s pamphlet on musical scales. JH's comments on [FJ]'s formulas and conclusions.
Replies regretfully that other urgent financial demands prevent JH from helping to build another church in AS's parish. Already is helping with one such church.
Suggests reducing the number of Greenwich astronomical observations printed, but not reducing the magnetic and meteorological observations.
Explains HT's problem with the defective telescope glass. Advises caution about entering optical glass manufacturing. Urges HT to take back his will from JH's possession and entrust it to the care of a legal advisor.
Comments on the death of a number of friends, his own poor health, and how he spent the winter working through his double-star observations.