The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel13617,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel13617
[Letter appears to be a response to some criticisms by JH of BV's paper on Encke's comet submitted to the R.A.S.] Deals with the density of the comet's nebulosity and with the effect of the comet's approach to perihelion, gives estimates of the comet's magnitude, and comments on the behavior of gases.
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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