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Herschel5226

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1822-4]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.135
Summary:

Tells CB that JH has seen a calculating machine made by some 'rascally frenchman'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8057

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1822-4[
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.324
Summary:

Asks JH to check accuracy of Nautical Almanac entry for Jupiter's satellites III and IV on 20 Aug. 1819. Thanks for JH's note, but tell James South 'he is bound to give his reasons....'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8056

From:
Thomas Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.323
Summary:

Fears JH misunderstood TY's remark about the injustice of James South's accusation regarding Nautical Almanac. TY was not trying to provoke South's hostility. Sends 'Schumacher's No. 10' for JH's perusal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8435

From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.416
Summary:

Discusses JS's efforts to reform the Nautical Almanac, including JS's Practical Observations on the Nautical Almanac. States that in this 'awful crisis' JS has no hostile feelings toward its superintendent, Thomas Young.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5224

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.171
Summary:

Matters relating to his calculating machine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8191

From:
Pierre Simon Laplace
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.7
Summary:

Please forward enclosed papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9972

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.307
Summary:

Comments on the need to travel, and on the boredom of the meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; family news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12278

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet
Date:
[20 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.134bis & RS:HS 20.138
Summary:

P. L. Guinand has informed the Astronomical Society that he can make flint glass free from the usual imperfections. Would like any information from JN. One of his papers has been named as likely to receive a prize. Hears that an arithmetical machine has recently been demonstrated before the Institute. Have any details been made public?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7795

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henrik Johan Walbeck
Date:
[22 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.10b & 19.13
Summary:

Sends first volume of Astronomical Society's Transactions and JH's paper on aberrations ['On the Aberrations of Compound Lenses.' 1821]. Asks for geodesical results at Ã…bo.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5225

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[26 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.172 & 20.139
Summary:

Please forward enclosed note to Mrs. Roget [wife of P. M. Roget?]. Various items of interest.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5894

From:
Joanna Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.19
Summary:

Thanking him for poetry. Would like some more, written on a different subject and under better conditions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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