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Herschel10277

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Haig[?]
Date:
[1 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.160 & 24.50
Summary:

Thanks for his books. Encloses one of his own pamphlets on Atoms, which will show his personal view of mind versus matter. Comments on some of Haig's terminology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8941

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[1 July 1864]
Source of text:
London Times (July 4, 1864), p. 11, col. 2
Summary:

Responds to objections published in the Times of 30 June to JH's 1864-6-18 letter to the Times regarding the introduction of the metric system in England; JH opposes this and goes on to explain the scientific basis of the British system.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9223

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1864-7]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207114 (C: RS:HS 24.65)
Summary:

Responds to WW's comments on JH's Iliad translation. Sending Book X.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8942

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[4 July 1864]
Source of text:
London Times (July 6, 1864), p. 7, col. 2
Summary:

Corrects typographical errors in JH's recent letters [1864-6-18 & 1864-7-1] to the Times.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4069

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[4 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.51
Summary:

Sends WS William Herschel's chromatic observations of Beta Cygni. Completing 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' Works on translating Book IX of Iliad; fears he will not complete translation of Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7165

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[14 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.52
Summary:

Comments on the state of JH's health; about ciphers and about decimalization.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7167

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[18 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.53
Summary:

Comments on remedies suggested by AD [see AD's 1864-7-15]; on ciphers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4130

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Isaac Todhunter
Date:
[18 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.54
Summary:

Cannot find the source of supposed Wilhelm Struve probability calculation; believes he has made a mistake. Regrets the error was not noticed in time to correct the seventh edition of Outlines Astr.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3563

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[18 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.393b (C: 24.48; C: RI 524-7)
Summary:

Thanks for and comments on papers on scientific history and molecular physics, particularly on a magnetic experiment and on dynamical efficiency of coal relative to motion theory of light and heat. Comments on nature of heat, 'vis viva.' Deplores laxity with which physicists use and confuse terms 'force,' 'motion,' and 'energy.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10991

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
[27 July 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.337 (C: RS:HS 24.55)
Summary:

His son informs him of the projected series of lectures at the Royal Institution on weather forecasting and meteorology. Comments on this.

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John Herschel Project
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