The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel7001,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 9 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel7001
Sends extracts from book by Mr. Hopkins on the solar system. Has his own theories on the Augustan calendar proved to his own mind. No authority for giving the name Saras to the period of 223 lunations.
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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