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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 him local paper so that he can see how the Oxford news has been received. Corporation of Southampton has come into a legacy.
Sends him photograph of his godchild. Would like some lines from JH that he (the godchild) might keep.
Thanks for the gift of a book of verse.
Too busy to answer his last letter until now. His theorem on perspective is pretty and easy. Quotes one he uses. Has been busy finding the proof that every algebraic equation has a root. Has been organ tuning. Comments on the method of tuning using beats.
Is AD interested in the Lowndean Professorship at Cambridge?
Sending some examples of sensorial vision
Sending a magazine containing a notice of JH's paper on sensorial vision.
Describes lodgings taken in London; JH is working hard on his Physical Geography.
JH spent most of the day before in a meeting, and with a man selling an engraving of scientists of 1806.
Discusses B.A.A.S. business and asks for WW's views on some magnetic observations.