Objections to one of JH's theories.
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.
Objections to one of JH's theories.
Has heard nothing of JH since mutual friend died two years ago. This May is cold and cheerless.
Thanks for the gift. Family news.
Thanks for Margaret Brodie Herschel's note. Hopes to see them in the near future.
Giving details of the secretary of an Italian organization. Is sending a letter of David Brewster's.
The hour of meeting of council is to be altered. Bring his paper on notation.
Is forwarding parcels. Getting ready for some experiments.
Remarks on various equations.
General family news.
Family news.
Would be grateful if he would deliver the enclosed [note?] when he arrives at Florence as it concerns his baggage. Hopes he experiences no ill effects from his stay in Rome.
Many thanks for his Latin translation of the poem. H. M. Parker is publishing them and will advise him.
Experiments with lens curvature and prisms. Wants to discover set rules for lens thickness-to-curvature ratio.
Regrets being unable to visit JH at Slough while CP was in England.
Accepts his invitation to lunch, but his wife and daughter will be unable to come.
Has sent a bronze bust of George Cuvier to the R.S.L.
There is no stated time for Willie's [JH's son] appearance at India House; any day suitable for him and Charles Pritchard will do. Suggests Wednesday next, the tenth, if suitable.
Astronomical matters.
Will take charge of the chronometers for Capt. Richard Copeland. Will convey anything else JH has for the Mediterranean. Too busy to reply to his letter yesterday.
Would like to print in his own Treatise on Atmospheric Phenomena JH's account of the Autora Borealis of May 1843. Had a large batch of papers from Sir Thomas Brisbane. Sends one of his weekly accounts.