Likes JT's explanation of sky's blue color. Has difficulty with JT's explanation of polarization of skylight. Comments on absorptive powers of vapor and liquid.
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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.
Likes JT's explanation of sky's blue color. Has difficulty with JT's explanation of polarization of skylight. Comments on absorptive powers of vapor and liquid.
Reports on and believes fit for publication paper [R.S.P.T., 153, 309-] by G. B. Airy on diurnal irregularities of terrestrial magnetism.
Anxious to receive final sheets of nebula catalogue from GA [see GA's 1862-11-19], as JH wants to enter the descriptions and complete the work.
In GA's absence, ES reports on the state of completion of the final copy of the nebula catalogue [see JH's 1863-1-13].
Concerning Thomas Maclear.
Requesting him to become a member of the newly formed Anthropological Society.
Has been reading his work on volcanoes and earthquakes ['About Volcanoes and Earthquakes'] with interest. Regarding his own health.
Regarding their journals and publication dates.
Is pleased that JH has used Lady Callcott's account of the 1822 earthquake at Valparaiso. She was pained by the doubts of her accuracy by G. B. Greenough.
Is grateful for his reply. Where can he find a statement of Isaac Newton regarding the relationship between colors and music?
Thanks for a number of items of poetry and sends EC a translation of some poetry by Friedrich Schiller.
Thanks for a collection of poems; comments on lunar eclipses.
Has read JH's publication on volcanoes ['About Volcanoes and Earthquakes']. Comments on the formation of rocks and the creation of the world.
Is grateful for the note and brochure. Is grieved to hear of the illness in his family. His own health is not good. Comments on the article on Telescopes by JH in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Pleased to hear that the memorial on behalf of Thomas Maclear has been successful. Comments on the mild weather. Hopes the health of his daughter is improving.
Gives details of calculations [for JH's catalogue of nebulae]. Three more weeks of work needed.
Preparing classified index of observatory journals, but information will not be accurate enough to help JH. G. J. Stoney is too busy to help remeasure nebulae positions.
Invites JH to R.A.S. dinner on 9 Jan. to meet Sir G. C. Lewis.
Austrian consul, Mr. Schaeffer, sent JH one copy of Voyage of the Navara and map, care of R.A.S. If parcel arrives, send it to Smith, Elder & Co.
Eighteen months ago, JH sent to JW autographs of William and Caroline Herschel and Baron von Humboldt. Now seeks another of each.