Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.
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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.
Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.
Progressing slowly. Knows nothing about C. M. Hall or the whereabouts of his telescopes. Regarding the London Institution. Sees that U. J. J. Leverrier has been dismissed.
Prospects for investment in Great Eastern Railway for JH's son William.
Discusses various telescopes of his father and his father's [erroneous] announcement of his discovery of four additional satellites of Uranus.
Proposes a method of defraying the cost of coinage by means of seigniorage involving silver coinage.
About the dismissal of U. J. J. Leverrier at Paris observatory.
A long rambling statement against the metric system and its proposed introduction into India.