Please clarify differences between French metric system and JH's adaptation of British system of measurements. Willing to raise issue in Parliament, but wants to understand it well. Hopes to see Emma soon.
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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.
Please clarify differences between French metric system and JH's adaptation of British system of measurements. Willing to raise issue in Parliament, but wants to understand it well. Hopes to see Emma soon.
Problem of Irish church has forced postponement of Parliamentary discussion of metric bill until 13 May.
Thanks for JH's notes on metric system. Will study these before Parliamentary debate on 13 May. Calculates that 63 percent of exports go to British possessions, while only 18 percent go to Continent. Sees this as argument against introducing metric system.
Why did French chose arc from Dunkirk to Barcelona as basis for metric measurements? Explain meridian lines. Why are linear metric measurements founded on arc, rather than on straight line? Criticizes William Ewart for introducing metric bill.
Just received another copy of JH's 'Half a Dozen Propositions Respecting the Gold Coinage' from son Henry Hardcastle. These should create problems for Chancellor of Exchequer. Hopes to understand these before Parliamentary discussion on gold currency begins.