Asks JH for advice on a table designed to show the relation between the chemical elements and the known minerals. Asks JH about various problems relating to determining chemical formulas.
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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.
Asks JH for advice on a table designed to show the relation between the chemical elements and the known minerals. Asks JH about various problems relating to determining chemical formulas.
Has directed £167-13-6 to be paid to JH's account at Drummond's. Gives list of donors to the fund for new buildings [at Cambridge].
Sending a portrait of herself; CH comments that receiving word of JH's marriage made her look 'a dozen years younger all at once.'
Plans to see JH at Slough. Visit by Mrs. Stewart and daughter. Declines money offered by JH.
Regrets he cannot carry out JH's request. Hopes to see him and Mrs. Herschel at dinner.
Anxious to hear the opinion of his telescope. Notices best resolution with a 3.5-inch aperture. Also, distinctness is best with correcting lenses in certain diametric position.
Hopes the Herschels are well. Is worried about the state of Charles Babbage's engine. Thinks an approach should be made to Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington).
Visit by Patrick Stewart. Painting of 40-foot telescope completed. William Langton and two daughters are staying with MPH. Somervilles report that Charles Babbage bought R. I. Murchison's house and plans to remarry.
Will not be going to America. Will advertise for boarders to assist them in the study of mathematics and physical science. Sent paper to R.S.L.
Returns to Slough. Visits by Stewart family and Somervilles. Charles Babbage visited and denied rumor of his remarriage.
Is grateful for JH's assistance with his request. Would he lend him £5 until his first payment falls due.
Measurement of moon's diameter and distance. Expects JH will soon have 'official authority over me' and [Nautical Almanac]. Astronomers probably regulate sidereal clock by variable equinox because they cannot find a fixed one. Errors in JH's equinoctial time.
Concern for Margaret Brodie Herschel's illness. Income from family holdings. Regards to James Grahame and his father.
Bring Isabella Stewart to Slough on Wedesday.
Regrets tremendously not being home when JH visited. Wishes to present himself at JH's hotel this evening. Would like to spend tomorrow together. Will discuss translation of Light.
Reports unfavorably on the telescope of A. Rogers. Information regarding Charles Babbage and his engines. Controversy concerning the Nautical Almanac.
Releases JH from silence. Oxford University will publish portions of [James Bradley's] observations of comet of 1759 [see SR's 1829-3-18, 1829-3-25]. Never expected SR would trace and recover them.
Is pleased to write letter to [G. P.] Dandelin for JH. JH should visit Mr. Van Rees at Liege, for which AQ will also write a letter of introduction. Nevertheless AQ believes JH's name suffices as introduction. If JH visits Namur, he should see the governor of the province, Mr. D'Omolius[?].
Greetings to Mr. and Mrs. Herschel.
Visit to Slough by Mrs. and Miss Stewart. Mr. Secker obtained part payment of Mr. Davenport's overdue rent.