Pointing out an error in one of JH's definitions in the treatise on sound.
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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.
Pointing out an error in one of JH's definitions in the treatise on sound.
Saw W. S. Stratford yesterday. Has everything ready. Richard Sheepshanks will assist with the pendulums. If he wants more on the interest works, write and he will send a complete list.
Regarding a citation for J. W. Lubbock's award.
Regarding the task of sorting his books. All W. H. Smyth's daughters are married; wait until the last one of JH's is married. Has had a letter from W. R. Hamilton. Heat has been dreadful.
Regarding JH's new theory of perspective.
Regarding a proof of L. A. J. Quetelet and the proposition that arises from it. Wife is nursing her mother.
Anne Sheepshanks would like JH's copy of Richard Sheepshanks's pamphlet in answer to James South and Charles Babbage, to bind with other things and return it to JH.
Did the German edition of William Herschel's works ever materialize? Was Francis Baily's Synopsis of Laplace's Principal elements of Astronomy published? Gives a query regarding the possibility of the latter.
Sending some tracts which JH does not possess. Elizabeth Baily is rather better, though still weak.
What does he think of [Joseph] Liouville's journal in which 13 of the 14 communications are by the editor? Sends another riddle.
Sends a sonnet to express thanks for one of JH's books. Regarding an answer to S. J. Loyd (1st Baron Overstone). Mr. Vaughan and the question of gold.
Sending proposed prospectus for a 'fun2y algebra.'
Sending proposed prospectus for a 'fun2y algebra.'
Further explanation of a matter in gunnery. Can send further sketches if he is still interested.
Has accepted an invitation to visit the Victory and hopes to meet the JH's at the same party. Is off to the dockyard to see about an anchor.
Has been staying at Rome, where the climate did not suit him, but is now on a small ship touring the Mediterranean. Sends a letter of Feliciano Scarpelini, who has a man working a specula made of marble. Palermo Observatory is being put on a secure footing.
Further about the experiments of T. T. Grant. Man presented him with a sealed packet on the subject of the precession of the equinoxes by means of the libration of the moon.
Introducing a German gentleman who is on his way to South Australia.
Is grateful for the news from Natal. Congratulates him on his decision to send troops so promptly.
Writes to thank JH and his wife, Margaret, for their kind hospitality. CJ also mentions several other people he met.