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Herschel2606

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[1 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.222
Summary:

Thanks WS for 'Genevieve' translation. Will not continue the Dante because a Terza Rima translation has been done previously. The sun is behaving oddly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10675

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[5 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.223
Summary:

Comments on WH's finding the carbon line in WH's spectroscopic examinations of cometary tails.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4184

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomson
Date:
[11 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.351a (C: RS:HS 24.224)
Summary:

Comments on WT's paper on geological time. Unsatisfied with the efficiency of tidal friction in retarding the rotation of the earth. Considers effect of external attraction on a rotating body to relate to momentum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10208

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rider Garrett
Date:
[29 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.94 & 24.225
Summary:

Has received her version of the first canto of Dante's Inferno. Did she know it has already been done in an almost perfect way by Mr. Ford, prebend of Exeter? Comments on various points of her translation.

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John Herschel Project
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