Congratulations and best wishes for JH's daughter recently married. If he has any material for the annual report, please send it.
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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.
Congratulations and best wishes for JH's daughter recently married. If he has any material for the annual report, please send it.
Questions the exact beginning of the year 1857, and offers 'Old King Cole' in Latin.
Still worrying about where does the day begin?
Queries on what meridian the year began. Returned a book to the R.S.L., which had been away for many years. Believes the R.S.L. Library was expurgated between 1734 and 1740.
Further regarding the meridian on which the year began and various times throughout the world.
Riddles, Latin nursery rhymes, and an eclipse description.
Regarding the recent eclipse of the sun. Has not been able to guess all his riddles.
About insects JH's children caught and photographed; on a book on harmonics.
Has examined the animalcules JH sent. Sends some of his own obtained from ink! Regarding the variations of spelling his own name.
Has not heard from him for a long time. Hopes all is well. Elizabeth Baily has had a stroke but is slowly mending. Arthur Baily has committed suicide. His own wife and children are at the seaside. Hopes JH or one of his daughters will write soon.
Sees that JH was the author of the article on mathematics in Brewster's Encyclopaedia. Comments on this and Isaac Newton's authorship of the notes and review of the Commercium Epistolicum.
JH keeps his astronomy right up to date. Regarding the significance of the word 'month' in legal phraseology. Gives two riddles.
Errors to be corrected in a new edition of one of JH's writings, including spelling AD's name in the French way.
Does not intend writing a life of Isaac Newton or G. W. Leibniz. Comments on the apparent delusions of Newton regarding other men's inventions.
On the definition of an island, and an invitation to lecture about a comet.
Sending a query regarding JH's philosophy.
JH has turned round his question. Samuel Earnshaw has professed to have integrated the pipe equation. Gives an equation of his own.
Does not intend trying for the Lowndean Professorship. Hopes that JH has been asked to do a memoir of George Peacock. Hears he has been traveling about the country. Sends a riddle.
About biographical information on George Peacock.
Regarding George Peacock and his mathematical work. Gives some of his own theories, which he intends publishing. Includes a riddle.