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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.
Asks to visit JH today.
Thanks for having sent a copy of the works of Antoine Lavoisier [3 vols., 1862-65, ed. by JD].
Has now received his pamphlet. Does not agree with its findings, but will submit it to the R.S.L., though it cannot be printed in R.S.P.T. as it has already appeared elsewhere. Comments on some of EK's theories.
Forwarding copy of paper by Ernst F. W. Klinkerfues; EK purports to show that movement of a star toward or away from an observer will affect its refraction in an achromatic prism.
Says William Whewell has fallen from his horse and has been injured. Thanks JH for a paper he signed for the R.S.L.
Has heard about William Whewell's accident. Hopes he will recover, but knows his advanced age may hinder this. Wishes WS to send news of progress.
Comments against the paper of Ernst Klinkerfüss about observations of dispersed star light [see JH's 1866-2-24].
About William Whewell's accident, and the ideas of E. F. W. Klinkerfüss on the behavior of light due to the motion of a star source.
William Whewell has gotten up to walk several times. The left side of his body and face is still 'not quite right.'
Agrees with GS's assessment of Ernst Klinkerfüss's paper [see GS's 1866-2-27].
Comments on the state of William Whewell's health, and about the theories of E. F. W. Klinkerfüss [see JH's 1866-2-27].
Has sent the 1854 Greenwich Magnetical and Meteorological Observations. Illness of the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (William Whewell). Undulating theory of stars in motion.
Expressing the thanks of her mother for signing the memorial.
Comments on analytic symbolism in mathematics.
William Whewell slightly improved. Dr. [George] Humphry has been elected professor of Anatomy. Is indebted to JH because of the paper he sent to the R.S.L.
Further comments on Ernst Klinkerfüss's paper, in response to JH's 1866-2-28.
Asks JH to recommend a reviewer for a popular book on astronomy.
William Whewell seems to have permanent damage to his brain. Whewell has an article in MacMillan's Magazine regarding Auguste Comte's philosophy.
A relation of JF has a handsome portrait of a William Herschel dressed in Jewish costume, to dispose of and wonders if JH would be interested in it. [Note by Herschel that this is Rabbi Herschel and no relation to the family.]
Is trying to assist in finding someone to review a book [The Heavens] by [Amédée] Guillemin.