From:
Johann Franz Encke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.92
Summary:
Comments extensively on the orbits of recent comets.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Comments extensively on the orbits of recent comets.
Writing to try to set up a visit to JH.
Thanks for JH's hospitality; tells of JE's further travel plans.
About the calculations of JE, and others, on the motion of the solar system.
Asks for permission to look at R.S.L. letters from G. W. Leibniz to Henry Oldenburg; comments on dioptrics, and several astronomical topics.
Comments relating to G. W. Leibniz correspondence [see JE's 1846-9-22]; comments on naming the new planet Neptune.
The excellence of JH's Cape Results has humbled JE. Much of the letter is taken up with more in the same vein, citing specific examples.