Announces King's enrollment as patron of R.A.S. Recalls Danish monarches who promoted astronomy. Praises Altona observatory and work of H. C. Schumacher.
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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.
Announces King's enrollment as patron of R.A.S. Recalls Danish monarches who promoted astronomy. Praises Altona observatory and work of H. C. Schumacher.
On the preparation of paper to exhibit a thermal spectrum.
JH has apparently insulted JL by crediting JL's colleagues but not JL with improvements in lunar and planetary theory. JH explains how this happened, that JH's good intentions went awry.
Four appointed directors sent to Cape schools. Will leave Slough in two weeks for Collingwood. Laid William Herschel's telescope to rest at Slough.
Indicates travel plans, including a visit to FB, with a side trip for business to Slough. JH comments on some astronomical observations he has received.
Thanks for 'small, but intense' volume sent.
Thanks RS for all the trouble he took with the problem of his portrait. Is anxious to see the specimens of the engraved nebulae of which RS spoke, but confesses little hope in photographic 'reverses' of pencil drawings. Has installed his family at Collingwood.
JH is preparing to leave residence at Slough, and all notes on William Herschel's life are packed away. Refers [?] to published biographies, but adds some corrections to those.
Hopes that his paper does not anticipate any of RH's work; will share with the R.S.L. any of RH's results. Laments that he is unable to fix the spectral colors on photographic paper. Asks if RH has studied the bromines.
Packing up the 7-ft. and 10-ft. reflecting telescopes for their trip to Collingwood in Hawkhurst in Kent, JH's new home.
About the choices to be made in moving furniture from Slough to Collingwood; problems about the election of a minister at Eton.
Mostly about boxes packed and shipped to Collingwood, along with questions about items of equipment there.
About a tragic fire nearby, and more about moving goods to Collingwood.
Sends WW some verses, asks WW's and George Peacock's advice on a request by Edward Sabine for funds, and invites WW to visit Hawkhurst, where the Herschels were then in the process of moving.
Complains about the loneliness now that the family is gone from Slough, as are most of their goods.
Received a 5-ft. Newtonian reflector from JH's aunt Caroline; is offering it to the R.A.S. JH is on the verge of moving to Collingwood.
Trying to establish which of the boxes of household effects that have been shipped from Slough have arrived at Collingwood; comments on the weather.
Exchanging further information on several aspects of the photographic process [see RH's 1840-4-15].
Honored to be elected as a foreign member of the Academy.
Sending specimens sent to JH by [Robert] Hunt. Praises Hunt. Has WT received JH's paper ['On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum...,' R.S.P.T. (1840), 1-59]? JH moving to Collingwood.