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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.
Sees that JH mentions 'the longitude of perihelion on the ecliptic' as one of the elements he would like to have in the case of the small planets. Would like his advice.
Comments on JH's advice regarding the 'longitude of perihelion in the ecliptic.'
Explaining some of the signs in the enclosed table. Has sent the Nautical Almanac for 1867.
Sending the revision of the first half sheet for the 1867 supplement containing the latest elements of the small planets.