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From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.483
Summary:

Sending JH his Essays [Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative, 1857] and HS's 'Recent Astronomy and the Nebular Hypothesis,' the latter just published in the Westminster Review. Requests JH's comments on the latter publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.486
Summary:

[Responding to JH's 1859-1-16,] HS defends the nebular hypothesis, HS's theory of comets, and sets out HS's theory of sunspot formation, noting that John Tyndall supports it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.487
Summary:

[Responding to JH's 1860}-1-12,] HS admits some of JH's objections to HS's views on distribution of cometary orbits, but attempts to salvage HS's cyclonic theory of sunspot formation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.488
Summary:

Asks JH to become a subscriber to a work that HS is bringing out. Lists prominent persons who have already done so.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 April 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.490
Summary:

Thanks JH for agreeing [1860-3-17] to be a subscriber to HS's project and for JH's critique of HS's use of the term 'Absolute.' Admits that it has difficulties.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.491
Summary:

Recalls JH having written that an 'annulus of stars might be in equilibrium.' Asks where this claim appears in JH's writings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.492
Summary:

Thanks JH for sending HS a copy of JH's dialogue ['On Atoms']. Comments on it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.493
Summary:

Doubts the claim that Auguste Comte has significantly influenced English scientists. Asks whether JH believes Comte has influenced JH or others. Asks whether it is more difficult to calculate the moon's motion or the motion of a projectile through a resisting medium.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.495
Summary:

Recounts efforts to establish The Reader as a respected weekly journal of science. Asks that JH submit material for publication in it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.496
Summary:

The Reader does not plan to publish a list of contributors, but would welcome letters by JH, which would imply JH's support for the new weekly journal of science.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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