William Whewell's symptoms are worse, but his mind is still active.
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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.
William Whewell's symptoms are worse, but his mind is still active.
William Whewell's nieces have little hope for his recovery. Whewell is anxious about his article on Grote's Plato for MacMillan's Magazine.
Thinks William Whewell's excitement may be a 'precursor to exhaustion.' The hope of recovery is very slight. JH is interested in Whewell's article on Plato.
William Whewell is still alive, but struggling. Dr. [Gilbert] French has died suddenly.
Detached postscript that refers to the behavior of William Whewell before his death.
Relays message from Dr. [George] Humphry. William Whewell is conscious but knows he is dying.
William Whewell died peacefully that afternoon. The place of burial has not been determined. WS will speak about him on Friday. Takes comfort in his writings.
Thanks WS for communicating the events of William Whewell's last days.
William Whewell will be buried in Trinity College Chapel. The thought of speaking about Whewell depresses WS.
Compiling three year series of helioautographs. Wants suggestions for noting the position of planets supposedly influencing sunspots. Discusses a passage from one of Galileo's letters concerning the influence of the planets on the sun's face.
Discusses how to denote the positions of the celestial bodies in solar photographs. Advocates a system that shows differences of heliocentric longitude on the sides of the sun.
Limited space precludes use of JH's suggestions for the photographic display. Will continue the series of solar autographs up to 11 years if he can.
Helioautographs are beautiful. Advises keeping original plan for presentation. Says 'Clarke's' [Harvey Carlisle's] article on William Whewell in MacMillan's is satisfactory. Describes an 'absurd paragraph' regarding Whewell in François Moigno's Mondes.
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].
Says the plan for the exhibition is ingenious. Discusses the 11 year cycle of sunspots and says the sun was spotless the previous day.
Thanks JH for his sympathy regarding WS's fall. Describes the meteors he saw from his window on December 4.
Congratulates WS on his recovery. Thanks him for the meteor observations. The evidence points to an 11 rather than a 10 year period [in sunspots?].
Discusses displaying solar autographs to the best advantage. Invites JH's son Alexander to read his meteor paper at the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Discusses Aristotle's and Richard Whately's descriptions of the sensitivity of the eye's lateral areas. Asks JH to review cover sheet and opine whether the predictions described are miracles.
Thanks WS for describing Aristotle's and Richard Whately's observation of the great sensitivity of the eye's lateral portion. Congratulates WS on becoming Dean of Norwich. Draft discusses miracles and lists possible arguments against WS's idea that miracles are not a violation of nature