The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel1158,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel1158
Not aware of any experiments to ascertain the amount of personal error in the estimate of time of a star transit. JH then comments on monetary matters including the value and gold equivalence of sovereigns issued by the Mint.
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library
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