Asks for advice on a number of scientific papers.
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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.
Asks for advice on a number of scientific papers.
Plans to calculate Gamma Virginis orbit. Received WS paper on astronomical observations. Suggests WS look for a house in Kent after learning plans to move near London.
Sends Joseph Cranch to consult with JH over an equatorial telescope for Harvard College Observatory.
Thanks JH for reporting on C. P. Smyth's progress. Has read JH's translations of Schiller's The Walk. Sends copy of C. P. Smyth's work at Baseline Camp Zwartland on the remeasurement of N. L. Lacaille's meridian of arc.
Thanks JH for advice on the issue of P.M. that has just been published.
Thanks WS for C. P. Smyth drawings of Cape monument and Gamma Virginis observations. Notes J. H. Mädler's work on double stars and the doubt that they obey the inverse square law. Discusses use of photography in astronomy.
Construction of Herschel Obelisk at Feldhausen underway. Describes items to be included at the monument.
Thanks JH for a letter of introduction.
Needs some clarification of GA's letter [see GA's 1842-9-16] before JH is ready to reply about the calculating engine.
Thanks GA for exercising GA's usual discretion in the matter of the funding of Charles Babbage's calculating machine [see GA's 1842-9-26].
Sending two papers, one for the Physical Committee.
Concerning Airy's papers recently submitted [see GA's 1842-1-5]. Hopes he will continue to send a report of his experiments and observations.
Regarding JH's receipt of the 'Standard' reports. Remarks on the electrometer and barometer in the recent storm.
Regarding his letter writing. Has a promise of a trip on the Dover Railway.
Hopes to meet JH on 29 March.
Returns photographs of spectrum, with observations on the results.
Returning photographs, with observations. Regarding the transport of loads in hilly country. Remarks on the transcription and pronunciation of foreign languages.
Returning packet of papers on magnetism. Encloses copy of a letter he has sent to Edward Sabine. Has seen the recent eclipse of the sun.
Encloses copy of a letter written to Edward Sabine. Wants instruments of quicker vibration.
Asking JH for his views on Charles Babbage's calculating machine, so that he can pass on the information to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.