Comments relating to G. W. Leibniz correspondence [see JE's 1846-9-22]; comments on naming the new planet Neptune.
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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.
Comments relating to G. W. Leibniz correspondence [see JE's 1846-9-22]; comments on naming the new planet Neptune.
W. R. Grove and JG would like an opportunity of discussion with JH on a scientific matter. Will visit him if necessary.
Nothing more has been done with J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française...; WS hopes to spend more time on it henceforth. WS also has been too busy to oversee the progress on the bust of Francis Baily.
Plans to send parcel to observatory at Cape of Good Hope; does JH have anything to include?
Regrets he was unable to see JH when in town last week. Outlines the scheme for a new club.
Glad JH is writing the meteorology. Collecting materials for charts of ocean. Forwards some of this to JH for comments.
Sympathizes with JH's feelings of regret over actinometer readings. Has procured a new thermometer and carried out experiments toward correction of actinometers.
Is desirous of procuring impressions of prismatic spectra from all parts of the globe. These should show the chemical influence of the solar rays. The B.A.A.S. may be able to help or Colonel Edward Sabine. Can JH use his influence?
Thanks for his note. Is writing to remove any misconceptions JH may have about the proposed new club. Michael Faraday will be joining on condition that there will be no dinners.
W. S. Jacob sends Alpha Centauri observations to R.A.S.; uses JH's Cape Results as a guide to double stars.
Giving details of Thatcham Church and of the tablet, which is to be erected in memory of Francis Baily. Sculptor will be sending proof of the inscription.
Believes he has succeeded in integrating elliptic and hyperbolic functions in finite terms, and sends a paper in which this is discussed.
Sends a work for JH; would he also present the other copy to the R.S.L.
Sending treatises on radiant heat for the R.S.L. and JH.
Introducing his nephew, Emile Gautier, Doctor of Mathematics. Sends a memoir of J. H. Maedler.
Would be pleased to accommodate JH if he is attending the B.A.A.S. meeting.
Regarding pamphlets concerning F. W. Bessel. Altitude instrument finished.
Comments on the reports of the birthday celebrations for JH's aunt Caroline.
Presents 'tables for facilitating the approximate prediction of occultation and eclipses for any particular place,' so that seamen without specialized backgrounds in mathematics can observe and improve hydrography.
Sends some results concerning undisturbed parabolic motion. Laments the Irish famine.