Skeptical of reports of seeing Jupiter's satellites with the naked eye.
Letter details
Record number
Herschel4148
From
Sir John Herschel
To
William Henry Smyth
Date
[1 May 1844]
Sent from
[Collingwood]
Source of text
RS:HS 22.192
Physical description
C 1p
Additional information
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