Realizes that GA is quite correct [see GA's 1865-10-30]; JH had neglected a basic principle about interference.
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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.
Realizes that GA is quite correct [see GA's 1865-10-30]; JH had neglected a basic principle about interference.
Asks if JH anticipated the results of W. L. Newman's work on lens curvature.
Announces a quarterly meeting of the Hawkhurst National School Board.
Requests JH's opinions on his theories of origins of language. Believes Hebrew is the root of all languages.
Appeal in J. S. Parlby case fails.
Saddened by the poor treatment of W. H. Smyth [see GA's 1865-10-18].
Concerning JH's memorial to W. R. Hamilton's daughter. Holiday in Keswick. Comments on JH's papers on optics and force.
Writes about a long standing, very old, member of the Royal Observatory's Board of Visitors [W. H. Smyth] having been summarily dismissed from the Board.
Explaining JH's polarization difficulty [see JH's 1865-10-16].
Printed address of the Astronomer Royal to individual members of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory.
Further regarding polarized light and its interferences.
Thanks for the paper which will be communicated to the next meeting of the Lit and Phil Soc. Regarding Mr. Greave's paper on the ventilation of mines.
Suggests a method employing compressed air for cooling the working area in a deep mine.
Asks WW to welcome Mr. Prescott, a minister taking a position in Cambridge. Comments on a new Iliad translation.
A 'pep talk' from father to son on the occasion of son John's birthday.