Comments on the equation sent by CB. Has been experimenting with potassium.
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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.
Comments on the equation sent by CB. Has been experimenting with potassium.
Sends equations in operational calculus.
Regarding CB's marriage. Possibility of a suitable situation for him.
Temper and stinginess of CB's father. Seeking job in mining through Mr. Champernowne, local mineralogist. Describes CB's elopement, marriage by former tutor, and new residence. Considered career in Church when CB had prospect of inheriting fortune from CB's father, but that is no longer possible. Gives an equation for discussion.
Praising CB's functional equations. How to become an F.R.S. Conditions at Slough. Hears that he is coming to live in London.
Thanking him for the paper on analysis. Has been to see Sir Joseph Banks. Hopes to see JH soon.
Has executed all of CB's commissions. Hopes to meet Charles Shadwell when in town. Is in the throes of exams. Thinking of taking up mathematics. Relates further chemical experiments.
Why hasn't he written? Further regarding Charles Shadwell's advice. Is preparing his paper on functions so that JH or William Herschel can communicate it to the R.S.L.
Explaining his new theory of the atmospheres of the sun, planets, and stars.
Regarding CB's theory of the atmosphere of the sun, planets, and stars.
Regarding the vacant post of Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge. Has heard that the works of Leonhard Euler are being reprinted. Would he obtain the return of one of CB's books from Mr. Higman.
Regarding the vacant professorship of chemistry at Cambridge. Recent chemical experiments. Has obtained the book from Mr. Higman. Mr. Pulling was here recently.
Hopes to call on him Monday. Is just off to Brighton for medical reasons. Will return to Cambridge later.
Idling time at Brighton. Gives equations for CB to study. Regarding the equipment he needs for experiments. Will not be able to return to professional activities for some time.
Is sending a problem in analysis for his comments. Gives solution to functional equations of the second degree. Hopes to see him when he passes on his way to Cambridge.
Answer regarding CB's problem in analysis. Will visit him soon. Getting apparatus ready to be moved to Cambridge.
Wished JH had visited him when in London. Gives some functional equations for his comments. Wants a form in order that he (CB) may be elected to the R.S.L.
Reasons why he could not visit him when in London. Gives views on a paper of CB's. Fears he must give up the profession.
Regarding his own functional theories. Let him know when next in town.
Newman has sent the apparatus. Problems in calculus.