Asks JH to give 2 or 3 lectures on astronomy in the upcoming course at his school. JH declines the offer in an attached draft of a response.
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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 to give 2 or 3 lectures on astronomy in the upcoming course at his school. JH declines the offer in an attached draft of a response.
Thanks for letter. Has just turned 60 himself. Does not like the sound of the bronchitis. Wife thanks him for the pamphlet on Force. It is a dreadful puzzle. Philosophers must deny the existence of things they do not understand. Family members are at Walmer. Gives examples of mistakes being copied. Encloses two riddles.
Has devised a method of exhibiting the photographs of the configuration of the planets. WS's sister, Mrs. George Peacock, will marry the new Master of Trinity [William H. Thompson].
Discusses [John] Hennessey's proposal [see ES's 1866-8-11]. Suggests sending achromatic along with a qualified observer. Thinks Alexander Herschel might be suitable for such a post. Melbourne telescope progressing rapidly.
Thanks for letter and criticism of his own paper. Seems to have misunderstood most of his points. Explains some of his theories on the movement of the earth and tides.
Plans to compile and republish articles on claims of scientific education by famous scientists. Names nine who have consented. Wishes to include JH's letter to [J. C.] Adamson.
Settles a matter of debt.
Sends observations of additional circumpolar nebulae. Notes differences between his observations and those of JH. Hopes to determine positions of very faint nebulae in the future.
Thought that JH and Charles Babbage were of the same year, but Cambridge Calendar shows differently; can JH solve the puzzle? Visited H. Crabb Robinson yesterday who gave him some sonnets that had been addressed to Wordsworth. Regarding the 1st edition of the Eikon basilike. Reason for Sir James South's knighthood.