Urges WW either to be present for a meeting in preparation for the Magnetic Congress or to send written recommendations.
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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.
Urges WW either to be present for a meeting in preparation for the Magnetic Congress or to send written recommendations.
Because of the 'severe loss' recently suffered by Mrs. Whewell, Margaret Herschel will not stay at Trinity Lodge during the B.A.A.S. meeting. JH plans to go to Ely after the meeting.
Comments on glacial theory. Asks JH for his views on mathematical education at Cambridge. WW favors concentration on mathematical classics.
Working on double star orbits. Responds to WW's question [see WW's 1845-8-20] about proper mathematical education at Cambridge, for the most part agreeing with WW's preference for classical works.
Letter of introduction to WW for the son of Sir Jeremiah Bryant, then entering Trinity College.
Thanks WW for his book [Of a Liberal Education, 1845]. Agrees with WW on the educational value of the calculus and on the importance of Isaac Newton's Principia. Is teaching mechanics to his son William.
Planning to edit a volume of hexameter verse translations. Wishes to include JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.'
Thanks for WW's Lectures on Systematic Morality. Announces the birth of another daughter [Francisca]. Working on Cape Results.
Presents a detailed discussion of the state of double star astronomy, including number known and number that are probably gravitationally linked. Gives an extended critique of WW's Lectures on Systematic Morality, arguing that WW's system is ultimately a happiness-of-mankind system and consequently rests on expediency considerations.
Responds to JH's argument that WW's system of morality rests on expediency considerations. Argues that it rests more on empirical considerations than JH recognizes.
Pleased that WW is giving a paper at Southampton B.A.A.S. meeting. JH will attend. Has completed the printing of most of his Cape Results. Smoke-drifts are besetting Kent.
Informs JH about WW's forthcoming collection of hexameter verse translations. Laments that the discovery of the new planet [Neptune] did not occur at Cambridge.
Gives WW permission to print JH's translation of 'The Walk' by Friedrich Schiller. Comments further on the acceptance of pentametric and hexametric verse by the English, and includes a few verses of JH's own. JH well along in having his Cape Results in print.
Gives corrections to the proof copy of JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on the failure in England to discover the new planet [Neptune] and on his own and James Challis's role in the controversy that erupted.
Suggests final revisions to JH's hexameter translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Informs JH of the other authors of verses in the volume.
Returns, with comments, proofs of WW's hexameter translation. Favors encouraging theoretical more than observational work regarding terrestrial magnetism.
Responding to a published statement by WW regarding the discovery of Neptune, JH presents in detail a different interpretation, giving more credit to U. J. J. Leverrier than WW favored. Suggests that some observatory make a photographic record of sunspots.
Agrees to inclusion of his initials in WW's Verse Translations and to vote for Prince Albert in some Cambridge election. Comments on the 'mess' in the R.A.S. over awarding its medal for 1848.
Thanks WW for the supplemental dedication to JH in the second edition of WW's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. Is making slow progress correcting JH's Cape Results.
Recommendations on how best to make tidal observations.