Praises various photographs by WT and notes changes in some. Recounts optical experiments, recent and planned, by JH on rock-salt.
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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.
Praises various photographs by WT and notes changes in some. Recounts optical experiments, recent and planned, by JH on rock-salt.
Sends WT a copy of the solar spectrum in which each color is represented clearly in a 'positive' picture. JH sees this as giving hope for color photography.
Concerned with developing photography for tourist use. Doubts that colors of the spectrum can be readily displayed on photographic paper. The'chemistry' of photography is not understood.
Praises WT for invention of 'Kalotype' process; predicts it will be called 'Talbotype.' Notes excellence for photography of the weather during past year. Mentions possibility of cases of excessively rapid photographic change.
Announces his invention of the 'calotype', and his application for a patent. Questions JH on his address to R.A.S., objecting to idea that universe is infinite.
Preparing his calotype paper for publication. Looking for a summer house, somewhere interesting to photograph.
Congratulates WT on the calotype invention and the patent. Responds at some length to WT's concerns about the infinity of the universe. In postscript, provides a 4-page dialogue on the subject.
A further two dialogues elaborating on JH's earlier arguments [see JH's 1841-3-18] on the infinity/finitude of the universe.
Doubts that isomerism of all elements can be verified experimentally, but notes a number of groups with similar atomic weights that might well fit. Further on vegetable colors in photography. Refers to enclosure of a further dialogue on infinity.
Reports receipt of a communication, which argues that all elements are merely isomers of one substance. Expresses support for such a view.
Has been experimenting with paper prepared with light-sensitive vegetable juices. Sends two specimens of JH's results.
Some details of improvements in the calotype method.
Sends JH sample of chemicals and paper to make calotype himself.
Has read WT's paper before the R.S.L. and now complains they will not print it in the R.S.P.T. as they understand it has appeared elsewhere.
Explains the operation of the Council of the R.S.L. and hopes that WT will treat their unintended slight as a 'gaucherie'.
Expresses reservations about Samuel Brown's work. Apologizes for delay in trying calotype; has done only some vegetable substance trials.
Reports on paper by Samuel Brown to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the conversion of carbon to silicon, and other transmutations. Reports on discovery of new element, ozone, and complains further about R.S.L. Council.
Sends JH samples of his calotypes. Off to Germany on a photographic expedition.
Thanks for calotypes involving persons engaged in actions. Gives encouragement to WT's planned photographic tour in Germany. JH has been experimenting regarding color photography.
Carl Steinheil has proposed making telescope mirrors by plating silver on glass. Is writing to JH to tell him that somewhat earlier he had included this process in one of his patents.