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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 his opinion of F. W. A. Argelander's letter concerning the publication of his work by the R.A.S.
Wants more information about a Venus parallax expedition.
Forwards a letter about the Venus parallax expedition [see GA's 1848-9-21], and adds some comments.
Reports that William Lassell has written to say he has discovered the 8th satellite of Saturn.
Personally would like to have F. W. A. Argelander's work printed [see GA's 1848-9-13], but will need to get a wider opinion; also asks about sharing money available from the Admiralty [see GA's 1845-10-24].
Explains how the money from the Admiralty came to be awarded as it was [see JH's 1848-9-24].
Comments about the proposed Venus parallax expedition and their method of measurement [see JH's 1848-9-24].
Sends comments on the pages of JH's account of the moon's motions [see JH's 1848-9-25].
Concerning the eighth satellite. Observations on U. J. J. Leverrier's paper.
Comments on observational quality obtainable with the great telescope of William Parsons [Earl of Rosse].
JH has revised his account of the moon's motions given in JH's Treatise Astr. in preparation for JH's Outlines Astr.
Queries regarding the perturbation sheets.