Having read John Burrow's book, JH proposes procedure for analyzing masses of data from [African] Expedition. Will volunteer to interpolate chronometer errors if TM will undertake computations.
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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.
Having read John Burrow's book, JH proposes procedure for analyzing masses of data from [African] Expedition. Will volunteer to interpolate chronometer errors if TM will undertake computations.
About the principles whereby the nomenclature of the constellations might be reformed.
Comments concerning Francis Baily's book on John Flamsteed.
Thanks TM for the right ascension reductions. Saw the comet [Halley's] last night, but it was dimmer than before.
Has compared TM's observational measurements with those of the Brisbane catalogue, and finds TM's observations to be better; is working on a star photometer.
JH's observations of the comet [Halley's], together with comments on constellation nomenclature and stellar magnitudes.
Calculates the location of [Halley's] comet.
Star within 20 seconds of the nucleus of the comet [Halley's].
Has installed his astrometer to help judge star magnitudes; also makes a comparison of barometric observations with those of TM.
Sending some equipment back and forth, and some astrometer readings.
Arranges to have tea with TM tomorrow at the Royal Observatory.
Sends observations of several more standard stars, and of the comet.
Asks TM to accompany himself and Daniel Cloetes in hunting a leopard.
Does not want to compute precessions for each individual star.
Thanks TM for restoring JH's micrometer.
Believes that JH and TM can compile a better comet catalog together than they could separately.
Notes a discrepancy in TM's latest observations and those of Thomas Brisbane.
Congratulates TM on the birth of his son, George.
A note along with a request from Niccolo Cacciatore for some observations that JH says he cannot make.
Inquires about a star not found in TM's list of comet stars. Believes that their comet collaboration is going well.