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Herschel8468

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James South
Date:
[2 August 1825]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.448
Summary:

JH's attempts with Edward Sabine to measure the difference in longitude between Greenwich and the Paris Observatory. Supplies, for Alexander von Humboldt, JH's measurement of Mount Etna's height. Gives message for François Arago concerning paper on magnetism published by JH and Charles Babbage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8469

From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 August 1825]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.449
Summary:

Comments on various errors detected in the catalogue of double stars published by JH and JS. Scientific affairs in Paris in relation to Alexander von Humboldt, François Arago, P. S. Laplace, and others. Various cometary and stellar observations of JS.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8470

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James South
Date:
[16 August 1825]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.450
Summary:

Asks JS to check over and forward to Astronomische Nachrichten JH's paper ['Letter on Fraunhofer's Claims for the Inferiority of Reflecting as Compared to Refracting Telescopes'], which paper calls attentions to errors in the catalogue of double stars published by JS and JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8471

From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1825]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.451
Summary:

Reports observing with J. N. Nicollet two comets. Observations of Encke's comet. Gives position of nebula to be observed by JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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