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Whewell papers |
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207 |
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1817–66 |
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1 box |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. WW and George Peacock have 'absolutely turned his [Babbage] brain by your inflammatory conversation'. Babbage has been 'running analysis mad' and so has JH: 'I really have read and written more in the last fortnight than ever I did in twice the time in any other part of my life and I advise you to go and do likewise'. 'The distress of the poor and the pressure of the times forms the subject of conversation here'. .
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04 Feb 1817 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Baker, Gwatkin and Wilkinson have been staying with JH. He is pleased WW is undertaking something definite but wishes it was 'something entirely original. Still I hope your transl. of the application of Geom.y to Alg. will be useful'. WW should give all the forms relative to ellipses of small and large excentricity. A 'compendium of them is a great desiderium'. There 'are divers forms respecting the intersection of strait lines in space which are of the most eminent use in optics which would be valuable'. JH has been working at the demonstration of Stewarts theorems. JH's work on algebra 'goes on steadily but not very rapidly'. Judging by WW's query it does not look as if he is doing much about functions. .
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18 Jun 1817 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH and Babbage are 'analysing outrageously'. Could WW ask [George] Peacock whether he is making progress in the printing of a work entitled a Supplement to Lacroix which should have been published some months ago.
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26 Jul 1817 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Belated thanks for WW's account of Stevin's [Simon Stevin] investigations about the composition and resolution of forces. JH finds what WW says of Stevin agreeable to what Lagrange says. JH has not been employed in experiments on polarization for some months, and instead has been 'familiarizing myself with the known phenomena, and aquiring that practical habit of experimentation without which it is useless to attempt anything new'. [David] Brewster's discovery of more than one polarisng axis in various crystals is a most important discovery, and completely upsets [Jean Baptise] Biot's division of doubly refracting chrystals into attractive and repulsive. JH gives a description of his inquiries and where his experimental observations differ from Brewster's: 'I observed that the phenomenon of the minature polarised rings which Brewster spoke of in a former paper, was very different in appearance and position from what his description had led me to expect'. Instead 'of one set of ellipses, complete or nearly so seen along the axis, I saw two half sets cut off across their conjugate axes, and equally distant from the axis of the nitre prism'. Brewster places nitre among the class of salts with two axes, and JH has observed three and even contiguous sets of rings. .
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19 Aug 1818 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his Mechanics ['An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics', 1819]: WW has made too many 'concessions to the cramming system...and that the work would have been productive of more extensive good...had you conformed a little more to the taste of the age and a little less to that of the University'. JH has recommended WW's application to become a fellow of the Royal Society to Joseph Banks. 'Peacock's pamphlet is singularly stupid' and not worth being made the subject of a paper war. The new rules of the [Cambridge Philosophical] Society 'are very good with I think one exception, that which seems to authorize a system of debating on motions. If this be permitted I cannot concieve the possibility of the Society holding together long or maintaining its respectability'. JH thinks the meetings might receive great additional interest by admitting 2 sorts of communications to be read, one in the form of memoirs, formally got up with a view to publication, and another of a less formal character, containing notices of new facts, sketches of new views, such as give a kind of half publicity by being thus read in public, and thus at once send to secure a claim in case of future discovery, and to excite an interest in the pursuit of truths by railing a kind of philosophical hue and cry'. JH is to read his paper on polarisation to the Royal Society on thursday: 'The object of the paper is to upset certain overhasty generalisations, a nuisance too common in optical science, and to prove the competency of Biot's theory of periodicity to explain all the phenomena of the polarise drings, which in chrystals with 2 axes have hitherto presented anomalies of the most perplexing kind'. .
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01 Dec 1819 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Could WW take the enclosed letters to Laplace and Edwards. Biot will introduce WW to Cuvier. If he sees Arago to ask him whether he recieved a letter form JH announcing his election to the Astronomical Society, and if he sees Picollet whether he got Babbage's letter on his machine. If JH's theodolite by Schenck has arrived at Bouvard's could WW take it back to England with him. The two blue pamphlets are for Cauchoix and Fortiu [the optician]. The printed letters about Babbage's machine are at his request to be given to Prony and Cauchy and any others WW may think interested.
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1 Dec 1822 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his outline of Mont Rosa which has dispelled any certainty he still held respecting the true figure, position, and altitude of that 'mysterious hill'. JH is 'heartily sick' of the Cambridge election and dislikes all the candidates.
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11 Nov 1822 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. WW should submit his paper to the Royal Society ['A General Method of Calculating the Angles Made by Any Planes of Crystals, and the Laws According to which They are Formed', Phil. Trans., 1825]: 'Your idea of denoting every possible secondary face by one symbol (p, q, r) where p, q, r may be either + or - is excellent'. Although JH had adopted 'decrements on edges as partcular cases of decrements on angles' he 'did not think of negative decrements, which give your method its generality'.
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1 Oct 1823 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. WW does not have to personally read his paper on Crystallography to the Royal Society, but should provide an abstract of it. If read and approved it should be published in the second part of the Society Transactions for 1824 ['A General Method of Calculating the Angles Made by Any Planes of Crystals, and the Laws According to which They are Formed', Phil. Trans., 1825]. A nephew (Henry White) of two old friends of JH's has entered Queen's College to be educated for a missionary. He has no introduction at College, and consequently could become a 'Fanatic instead of a reasonable dissemination of God's word and the gifts of civilisation'. Would WW call on him and take occasional care of his progress.
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25 Nov 1823 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has sent WW's paper to Davy 'with the character it merits (for he cannot read it) - one of the neatest applications of algebraic anlysis I have seen' ['A General Method of Calculating the Angles Made by Any Planes of Crystals, and the Laws According to which They are Formed', Phil. Trans., 1825]. .
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19 Dec 1823 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. WW's paper on Crystallagraphy was read at the Royal Society and an abstract will be distributed at the next meeting ['A General Method of Calculating the Angles Made by Any Planes of Crystals, and the Laws According to which They are Formed', Phil. Trans., 1825]. JH did not hear whether WW had made any reference to Levy's paper in Brewster's journal. Because of the similarity with his paper, WW should refer to it in his abstract.
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28 Nov 1824 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH's reasons for declining to become a candidate for the Lucassian Chair: He does 'not wish to devote myself exclusively or par excellence to any one branch of science - perhaps too a consciousness that I prefer physical to mathematical science'. Any science he does do 'I had rather should be considered as done an amateur than as a matter of duty and profession'. JH has written to [James] Wood to canvass for Babbage. JH has become 'an ultra-Huttonian in regard of long geological periods'.
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17 Aug 1826 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has told the printers to send WW the proofs of his article on light ['Treatise on Light', Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, 1827], and is very obliged to WW for undertaking the superintendance of the press in his absence. JH has been careful with the history: 'I do not want to take on myself a task so insidious as balancing the merits and settling or even stating the claims of men so jealous as Brewster and Biot and Arago'.
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28 Aug 1826 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH sends a certificate in favour of Ritchie who wants to become a fellow of the Royal Society. Would WW also sign it and if [Adam] Sedgwick is around get him to add his name.
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20 Jan 1827 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has felt obliged to burn Mr Ritchie's certificate: As Secretary of the Royal Society he ought not 'exercise the privilege of a member in that respect' [see JH to WW, 20 Jan 1827].
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3 Feb 1827 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH is to be married on the 3rd of next month and would like WW to attend.
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1 Feb 1829 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH knows no one better, except Francis Baily, for the superintendence of the nautical almanac as George Airy. JH is depressed at the state of science in England: 'This is not a land where science of a high order is held in honour'. JH laments the lack of reward given to scientific talent in this country. '[William] Parry is going N.S.W and [Francis] Beaufort succeeds him as Hydrographer'.
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17 May 1829 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH with suggestions for WW's planned continental trip with Richard Sheepshanks. .
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1829 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Richard Jones's book has safely reached him ['An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation', 1831]: 'It is long since I have met with a work on P.E. [Political Economy] that is intelligible to my obtuse faculties, but this speaks plainly and not in parables. I am afraid it is almost so plain that people won't see how deep it goes'. Thanks for 'the No. of the British containing your views of science and of Lyell' ['Charles Lyell's 'Principles of Geology' volume 1'. British Critic 9, 1831]. JH does not think in many fields of science 'Britain is really the preeminent nation she was - In geology no doubt we take a decided lead, but as to the more other great departments I am not convinced'. JH thinks WW has been too critical of Lyell. Dionysius Lardner has informed JH that WW is to review him ['A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy', 1830]. JH recommends WW to read a 'book by Dr. Abercrombie of Edinburgh on the intellectual faculties (or some such title)'. JH gives a short critique of Jone's simplistic expose of Ricardo and Malthus's doctrine of rent.
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15 Feb 1831 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has forwarded WW a box full of various works on the subject of light.
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16 May 1831 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his letter and extract respecting cholera. JH has enclosed his paper on Double Stars.
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1831 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH's aggresive critique of the values and objectives underlying the foundations of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: Science 'is often called a republic but such a society as is here proposed will make it a democratic tyranny with all the vices of the narrowest oligarchy' [a transcript of this part of the letter can be found in Jack Morrell and Arnold Thackray ed. 'Gentlemen of Science: Early Correspondence of the BAAS', 1984, pp. 66-68]. JH thanks WW for his 'lecture on nomenclature' and defends his use of the word 'photonomy' in his work on light .
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20 Sep 1831 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH and family have safely arrived at the Cape. Their female servant went mad on the trip and is now in a lunatic asylum. During the voyage JH kept a careful register of the temperature of the water: 'an extremely regular and steady rise from Lat. 20 N. to about the Equator'. He worked the Actimometer when he could: 'in the open ocean in typical regions the sun's direct power is usually much greater than in England or the south of France on land at the hottest'. JH hopes to get WW tide results from Mauritius and Madagascar, and will 'make a point of furnishing you data from this place'. During the voyage JH caught quantities of luminous animals. Cape town is an 'Earthly Paradise'. JH hopes to have his 20-feet reflecting telescope erected within a month. WW to tell [Charles] Lyell that JH 'read with the highest delight his 3rd Vol.' ['Principles of Geoogy', Vol. 3, 1833]. .
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25 Jun 1834 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH is sorry to hear of the dissensions at Cambridge concerning management and discipline: 'I read your pamphlet on College discipline - nothing surely could be more temperate and apparently more resonable' ['Remarks on Some Parts of Mr Thirlwall's Two Letters on the Admission of Dissenters to Academical Degrees', 1834]. Maclear has been trying to set up tidometers at Simon's Bay and the Cape Town Jetty. JH has sent WW's paper on cotidal lines to Lloyd of Mauritius with a request to observe tides there ['Essay Towards a First Approximation to a Map of Cotidal Lines', Phil. Trans, 123, 1833]. They have made JH President of a Literary and Philosophical Society at Cape town: 'I mean to get organised if possible working Committees, chiefly to colect data for other people to combine (for we have no thinkers among us - yet)'. JH gives his analysis of the Cape climate. He has very succesfully repolished his two telescope mirrors: 'in one of our superb nights (after the rain) 800 was my working power - 1200 a good power and 2000 was borne and gave round disks to Mars!!'.
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21 Sep 1834 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH received WW's paper about the tides which was read at the 12th meeting of the Cape Philosophical Society ['On the Empirical Laws of the Tides in the Port of London: with Some Reflections on the Theory', Phil. Trans., 124, 1834]. Maclear has had no trouble getting the heights of the tides - which are self registered by sliders, but has had immense problems getting the correct times of high and low water due to labour problems. It has therfore been approved to take mid-water rising and falling readings instead. JH gives the reasons why this is an improvement. He also gives a short critique of WW's ideas about the birth-place and age of the tide. Thanks WW for the account of the Edinburgh [BAAS] meeting. JH's astronomical work is going very well: 'my list of Planetray nebula and double stars goes on swelling'. The savages on the last frontier are causing the colonists numerous problems. JH hopes Richard Jones has got Malthus's Professorship.
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07 Feb 1835 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH would like to begin a work 'towards the inductive construction of a system of ethicks. I think there is room for such a work and that it is wanted'. He describes his trip to the mountains on the other side of the Cape flats: 'The scenery is wild and grand'. He can hardly believe the difference in climate in successive years in the same place.
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09 May 1835 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. The tide observations made at Simon's bay have suffered a number of difficulties - 'hourly observations could not be carried on through the night - but from 6 AM to 8 PM we have got a complete set' from the 18th to the 30th June. Problem of getting the tide gage observed at table bay - 'nothing but a mass of error and impertinent matter resulted'. Thus Maclear or his observatory assistant personally went every day to observe all the tide observations from that day to the end of June. To get accurate readings you really have to observe the gage for at least an hour. Maclear thus dispatched his only assistant to take lodgings in the town to concentrate solely on taking tide observations. It would be good to erect a self-registering appartus at Simon's bay. Maclear will apply to the Admiralty for such an apparatus. WW should support his application. JH gives some early conlusions regarding the data from Simon's bay, and is unsure 'whether the annual part of the solar action as separated from its daily has had much attention bestowed on it'. He gives the following results: A statement of the mean 'mid-water' marks on the Simon's bay gage in periods, and barometer observations made by Edward Ryan on his voyage from the Cape to Calcutta: A table of interpolated times and heights of tides in Simon's bay from the hourly obseravtions from June 18 to June 30: A series of observations 'made with no care and with a bad barometer'. .
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04 Jul 1835 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. On the 6th [see JH to WW, 4th July 1835] JH sent WW a series of tide observations made in Simon's bay under the superintendence of J. Deas Thomson: The observers seem to have been regular and JH thinks the data can be trusted. Further to the above letter and the results of his interpolations, he encloses the curves themselves. The Table bay observations proved problematic and although both JH and Maclear tried to take readings they did not have the necessary time: 'I did a few tides myself but I soon found it no joke to ride into town 7 miles and out again and pass 4 hours a day on the jetty so I was forced to give in, as I found it impenetrable to get back in the evenings in time for my sweeps. Maclear obseved also several tides, but his assistant Meadows being gone to England and Smyth not yet arrived he could not leave the observatory often so he set his labourer Bowler (who took transits - reduced obsevations - and other obsevatory work) to give his whole time and attention to the tides for the rest of the month'. JH gives a comparative table of the results from Simon's bay and Table bay which show that the tide arrives nearly at the same time in both places. In astronomy JH has nearly sweeped the whole of the southern hemisphere. News on domestic fighting and politics in South Africa.
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25 Jul 1835 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. No information to give WW on tides. Problem with taking observations: 'At Cape town it was clearly impracticable to do anything - In bad weather the jetty is too much exposed and in fine nobody could be got who could be depended on to keep the register'. JH and Maclear have been waiting for the new self-registering apparatus to arrive [see JH to WW, 4 July 1835]. He has been working very hard to get the first six hours of his principal catalogues (the nebula and double stars) ready to send back to England in a reduced and arranged state: 'These 6 hours are by far the heaviest in the nebulae as both the magellanic clouds come into them and I trust it will be found that my analysis of these extraordinarily complicated objects is so nearly complete that in all probability very few additional nebulae in either of them will hereafter be detected except with an instrument of superior optical power to the 20 feet'. The Duke of Northumberland has placed at his disposal a 'princely magnitude' to assist him in his astronomical work. JH has rediscovered the 6th Satillite of Saturn. It will not be possible to see the 7th Satillite with the 20ft reflector: 'He is destined for the Great Russian Refractor (whenever it shall exist)'. JH has got a beautiful series of sun spots and devised a theory of them. .
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1 Jul 1837 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for a copy of his book ['The History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Time, 3 vols., 1837]. Although JH has only perused vol. 1, he has been struck by two things: 1/. The view that Aristotelian Philosophy has established induction in the wrong direction: 'raising it in the casual and vulgar use of words instead of phenomena': 2/. The idea of art being the parent of science. JH thinks WW undervalues 'the direct influence of science in improving some processes and originating others...If necessity and luxury have been the parents of art - science has been its wet nurse'. JH is impressed with WW's claim that the threads to truth are in the framing, trying and rejecting of an hypothesis (as discussed in WW's intelectual character of Kepler). The new gage at Simon's bay broke but has now been repaired. JH has reduced and arranged 654 nebulae and 475 double stars, and observed several revolutions of the 6th Satillite of Saturn - the only other person to have seen it was his father. .
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20 Aug 1837 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has received 'a note from Lord Melbourne saying that he shall be happy to recieve our Committee' but does not say when he will return to London. JH has heard that he has been named in the Courier as the probable successor to H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex to the Chair of the Royal Society - WW must put 'an absolute negative to any such report'.
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14 Sep 1838 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has recieved a note from Lord Melbourne 'affording no day but 'when he returns to town''. JH will come up whenever WW and [George] Peacock give the signal. [Francis] Beaufort recomends waiting until Lord Minto and Wood have returned to business before any step is taken about the Cape Observatory recommendation. WW to make it absolutely clear that JH has no intention becoming President of the Royal Society. .
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17 Sep 1838 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Lord Melbourne told JH that the South Polar Expedition will not meet with any opposition on his part. He would be ready to receive a formal application on the 11th or 12th of November - 'but added that there must be a Cabinet Council meeting upon it'. If they agree and the expedition sails next spring will it give enough 'time to order, procure, distribute and get into activity the Gaussian or other instruments'? Since they have to be totally prepared on views such as this - could WW and [George] Peacock draw up a prograame of the whole thing. JH will do the same after which they should all 'meet in town compare notes and consult with [Francis] Beaufort and [John] Ross as to the nautical outline of the thing to be recommended'.
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22 Oct 1838 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH to meet Captain Ross and probably [Humphery?] Lloyd on the 5th November to discuss the South Polar voyage expedition. A statement will 'be handed to Governmnet in our official interview with Lord Melbourne'. WW to tell Peacock of this preliminary meeting, which JH thinks it 'desirable' that at least one of them should attend. 'PS a note just in from Lord Minto is much in the nature of a wet blanket on the whole concern...Are you fully prepared to declare the objects proposed are realy worth a great material undertaking involving much expense and to defend the expenditure tooth and nail?' .
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28 Oct 1838 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. WW to read the enclosed and give his opinion whether part of the money granted by the British Association for magnetic research, should be used to purchase one or both of the instruments mentioned for the magnetic observatory at [Breslau?]. WW to get Peacock's opinion. Even if they purchase both it will leave a large surplus for which JH can think of no other use 'at home is likely to occur'. JH wishes WW or Peacock would write a review of the magnetic subject for the next quaterly 'to enlighten the public mind about it'.
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19 Dec 1838 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH would like to know whether WW will authorise him to pay for the two actimometers, for a vertical force magnetometer and for a bifilar magnetow for the [Breslau?] observatory. JH doubts whether they should purchase Osler's anemometer since he doubts whether their power extends to the ordering of meterological instruments, and unlike the actimometers this is a very expenesive instrument. Further 'they cannot be constructed abroad having never been described'. If WW and Peacock agree on the grant can they tell [Edward] Sabine. There will be no grant for the Hammerfist as was originally thought.
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22 Feb 1839 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Registers and blank monthly reports for 3 years should be sent with the instruments to [Breslau?] obsevatory. JH has just sent The Royal Society a paper on 'photographical matters'.
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1839 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH encloses tide observations just recieved from Sir J. Franklin. The nautical part of the magnetic expedition is to be considered as officially recognised - as verbally declared by Lord Minto to Lord North, [John W.] Lubbock and JH. The fixed observatories were also accepted by Lord North and JH in an interview with Lord Melbourne and Spring Rice. However the Royal Society has recieved no written confirmation to confirm the above. The expense of the instruments will fall upon the British Association, and therefore exceed the grant of �400 by some �200.
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1839 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH thanks WW on his wifes behalf for his Hexameters. The two halves of the magnetic project devised by JH, WW and Peacock have now been granted - albeit with different measures of 'graciousness and possibly also of ultimate fulfilment'. Nevertheless the naval expedition 'is certainly resolved on'. Although the land stations have been given the go ahead 'nothing is ordered - nothing is referrred to the Council of RS nor to the Commn. B. Assoc for discussion, or management - and we know not with what department of the public service we shall be put in communication. This is in a high degree embarassing'. Since Peacock is a personal friend of Spring Rice he should explain to him 'the extreme awkwardness and inconvenience of the present stae of things'. The BAAS grant of '�400 will not meet the cost of the mere magnetic instruments for the fixed stations'. .
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31 Mar 1839 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. They must give a report to the Bitish Association outlining the history of their activities as the Committee for the magentic expeditions and observatories, and a conclusion regarding the 'actual state of the whole affair'. Has WW or Peacock a letter from Spring Rice or document, 'authorising us to report that Govt. will bear the whole expense, and that in consequence the grant of the Br. Assoc. will not be needed'. Conversely do they need a continuation of that grant or an increase of it. JH will draw up the report as long as WW and Peacock correct it. He is fed up with the whole business: 'The affair has eaten up a year of my life and thrown me back in all my projects, and in some irreversably'.
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06 Aug 1839 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH will be happy to see Mr. Bunt's [Thomas G. Bunt - based in Bristol and took most of WW's tide observations along the South-West coast] Planetarium. Could WW bring it to his new home in Hawkhurst, Kent? JH is getting no end of strange results from his photographic research: 'I have now got papers which when half darkened darken more at the red end of the spectrum and whiten at the violet - others which darken far beyond the visible end - others which darken at the first impression of the light and then whiten - some which whiten at the two ends of the spectrum and darken in the inside etc'.
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01 Jan 1840 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH had hoped that WW may have come to visit. If he had he would have found them all in the tube of the 40 ft reflecting telescope chanting the attached printed requiem ['Requiem of the Forty-Feet Reflector at Slough, Sung on New-Year's Eve, 1839-40'].
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13 Jan 1840 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH on the prospects of meeting WW and Cordelia Whewell. He encloses a photograph 'which for sharpness of finish - faithful graduation of light...[and] general effect is I think you will admit not equalled. The process is a new one...and is at once the easiest, simplest and cheapest which has yet been devised. - As yet I have not yet become familiar with all the details of fixing, transferring etc but that will come of course'. JH hopes soon to produce pictures in absolute black and white.
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1 Jul 1840 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH playing on WW's enthusiasm for hexameters. Edward Sabine has proposed to spend �520 of the British Association's grant on a portable declination magnetometer on Weber's construction to send to [James Reddie?]. Have WW and Peacock any objection? JH sees none 'provided R. can satisfy himself that he has so completely reduced the work to regular systematic procedure'.
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4 Apr 1840 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. The superintendent of the Government Free Schools at the Cape, Mr. Jones, is in Scotland seeking school masters. He is then going on a visit to Belgium, Holland and Germany 'with a view to examine personally into the details and principles of the methods of teaching there practiced'. Can WW provide him with any letters of introduction and suggestions. JH will introduce him to Lambert A J Quetelet who has rlevant statistics. Mr Jones 'is a very superior person' and is superintendent of a brand-new plan of colonial education. WW's 'book is a tough ['The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences , Founded upon their History', 2 vols., 1840] - one...You are too a-prori rather for me - as soon as one has worked ones way up to a general law you...come cranking in and tell me it is a fundamental idea innate in everybody's mind - a necessary truth or very likely to prove such in one [or] thousand years hence'. .
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06 Aug 1840 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH would like to make WW 'God-papa of our last-born little girl'. JH is to review WW's 'The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences , Founded upon their History', 2 vols., 1840 ['Whewell on Inductive Sciences', Quarterly Review 68, 1841]: 'I fear talk as we might, or write as we may we shall never convert each other. We are like two staunch politicians Tory and Radical who agree in love of country and whom a thousand delightful associations keeps from tearing each others eyes out'. .
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17 Apr 1841 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH trying to coincide the visit of WW with the probable visit of Maria Edgworth.
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22 Apr 1841 |
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Margaret and John Herschel to William Whewell. Margaret and John Herschel congratulating WW on his engagement to Cordelia Marshall.
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16 Jun 1841 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH reporting on the progress of reductions in Meteorlogical calculations by Mr. Birt [William R. Birt?] under his superintendence. Only about a fourth of the money grant allocated for this purpose has been expended: 'Mr. B. is much more than a mere computist he goes to work well and philosophicaly and his labour is a much higher order than mere arithmetic and curve-projecting'. JH thinks he can be safely entrusted with more extensive reductions or with 'the conduct of a system of simultaneous observations for tracing the progress of a whole wave across a part of country'. However JH wants nothing else to do with meterological committees after his superintending duties are complete. Nor does he want - as Edward Sabine desires - to be part of the propsed elite corresponding council of 24, set up to be consulted on 'special matters'. JH would prefer a less formal body limited 'strictly to scientific points (i.e. Excluding all matters of management)' with absolutely no obligation to participate in the subjects under scrutiny. One question which could be submitted to such a body annually could be: ''On what objects beneficial to science can money be extended so as to produce its equivalent in knowledge?'' [a question it would seem asked by WW in his last letter]. JH gives some suggestions.
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30 Jul 1841 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has learnt from Richarda Airy that Cordelia and William Whewell are now settled in at Trinity College [WW married Cordelia on 12 Oct. 1841]. JH's next door neighbour Mr Hartwell has just sent his son up to Trinity College, and JH would like WW to give him occasional encouragement and keep him on the right path.
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1 Nov 1841 |
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51
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John Herschel to William Whewell. A drawing by JH of WW bloated and about to burst in the great hall. JH points to two distinct species of the [genus] cause: 'Love is the immeadiate cause of happiness as in the act of loving we are happy without regard to features', whereas who can tell what poison causes? For JH it is how time is conceived which is the real puzzle - are there not 'atoms of time atoms of force, atoms of ???? space and atoms of thought'.
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6 Jan 1842 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Since WW will be at Manchester for the British Association meeting, JH sends him a letter he recieved from Schumacher [Heinrich F. Schumacher] indicating the delicate state of Bessel's health. Consequently he will have to be sheltered from the enthusiasm of those attending the meeting. JH had not intended to attend but since George Airy and Francis Baily are both abroad he shall come on Bessel's account for a day. He will then take him back to to the quiet of his home in Hawkhurst. .
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1 Jun 1842 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Since William and Cordelia Whewell may be in Tunbridge Wells JH has sent a copy of his letter there as well as to Trinity College [see 207/54]. If they are so near to Hawkhurst they should come and visit them for a day. JH would like to thank WW 'for your paper on cause and effect (on which subject I have progressed I believe to a point very far in advance of all existing speculation...)'. JH could not visit Cambridge as well as go to Manchester 'solely on Bessel's account'.
1 doc. |
21 Jul 1842 |
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54
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John Herschel to William Whewell. [The same letter as 207/53].
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21 Jul 1842 |
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55
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has been reading about WW's speech in Lancaster [to his old school] in the Cambridge Chronicle. Julius Hare was at JH's yesterday 'speaking of you and the cause of honour and utility now before you' [appointed vice-chancellor of Cambridge University]: For 'the good of the university and the country', JH and JH hope that WW's appointment 'may be a long one'.
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29 Sep 1842 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Maria Edgworth has been staying with her sister at JH's: 'I do not recollect her ever so clear, accute, rich, and brilliant as at present at 75!'. They spoke about everbody 'except Dr. R (her brother in law)': JH is pleased at 'Lord R's entire success and quite as enthusiasticaly in his cause as any Irishman in the world'. He cannot account for some of the ill humour expressed, since JH believed he was good friends with Lord R. The Royal visit to Cambridge must have been both very pleasant and fatiguing for WW.
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29 Nov 1843 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH does not want WW to conclude that he is a 'convert to all your [philosophical] arguments though on some points I think the difference between us is reduced to a very fine line indeed'. John and Margaret Herschel will be unable to visit WW in Cambridge this summer, but will certainly take up WW's hospitality the following year when the British Association meets there (JH is to take the chair). He has no decided opinion about the meeting taking place in Cambridge for a second time.
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15 May 1844 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. The director of the Russian magnetic observatories has suggested to Edward Sabine the 'propriety of a magnetic congress to be held at the British Association of Science meeting. All the major figures from around Europe would be invited to 'consider the propriety of continuing the observations beyond the end of 1845 and whether there be any occasion for altering or modifying the plan of the observations'. Sabine wants JH to write to all the relevant parties to this effect. JH does not want to do this until he has had the opinions of WW and the other members of the magnetic committee of the BAAS as well as the view of George Airy. .
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22 Jul 1844 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH fears that a packet of letters considering a suggestion by George Airy have got lost in their 'circular motion round the magnetic committee' of the BAAS. Have they reached WW yet?.
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27 Aug 1844 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH meets Edward Sabine at The Geological Society on Friday to discuss the magnetic conference. If WW cannot make it he should send them his ideas on: 1/. The order of discussion. 2/. Whether the committee should propose any questions for discussion and if so what? 3/. Who should attend? JH thinks it should be open to all memebers of the Council of Recommendations. 4/. Who to vote in case of divisions regarding the questions? 5/. Should all foreigners be invited?.
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05 Jun 1845 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Margaret Herschel has just sent a letter to confirm their revised visiting plans to Cordelia Whewell at an incomplete address, hence JH writes to make sure she gets the message. There should be a meeting of the magnetic committee before the BAAS gathering to finalise discussions and come to some conclusion. .
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02 Jun 1845 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. John and Margaret Herschel will be delighted to see William and Cordelia Whewell on tuesday: However because they are preparing for the scarlet fever currently ravaging the neighbourhood, 'we cannot ask you to become our inmates'. JH has recieved WW's resume of letters on the glacier theories. He thought he understood the subject when the controversy first broke out, but it 'seems to me now encumbered with so many considerations that I am not sure I do understand it'. JH thinks that besides solid fluid and viscous bodies the subject has another class belonging to it: 'Bodies easily disrupted and readily reuniting by stickage. The plasticity of most snow is very evidently of this kind - it is very evident on crushing up masses of it that it yields and Retoughens by sudden jerks. - I do not percieve that this has been noted in the controversy'.
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1 May 1845 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. [Check the above date - JH in Memoirs of Ast. Soc.] JH would have wrtten earlier regarding WW's invitation for Margaret Herschel and their daughter to stay at Trinity Lodge in June, but he wanted to consult 'my better half' first. Margaret will write personally to Coredlia to confirm matters but he does not think his daughter will go: 'she is not yet more than 14 and is not yet published (come out) so that her mamma thinks it will not be expedient to bring her'. If 'Hopkins would not so horribly darken his meaning by atrocious formula which he sheds abroad like a cutter fish his cut in the sea - I should say that he has put the sliding theory in a decenter aspect than it seemed to stand'.
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1 Mar 1845 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH thanks WW on behalf of Margaret Herschel 'for your very pretty and portable quintessence of Philosophy' ['Indications of the Creator', 1845]. JH is critical of WW producing a brief expose of his thicker volumes - the cream without 'the solid and strengthening food'.
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10 Mar 1845 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. John and Margaret are sorry to hear of the death of Cordelia Whewell's father [John Marshall]. She should stay with Charlotte Jones [wife of Richard Jones] during the BAAS meeting at Cambridge. .
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10 Jun 1845 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his work on education ['Of a Liberal Education in General, and with Particular Reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge', 1845]. JH agrees that the geometrical system is indispensable in the way it concentrates 'on the direct study of the things in their relations to each other to time and to space'. .
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1 Oct 1845 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has been so engrossed in double star orbits [presumably his work done in South Africa] that he has neglected to reply to WW's letter. He has succeeded in simplifying his method of graphical projection to a point which satisfies him. A university course of mathematics is best examined in subject than in books. JH agrees with WW's list of great mathematical works but would add 'the great Lacroix'. He does not think George Airy's tracts should be included under the catergory of 'authority' 'unless the said author were at least 70 years old unless his book had aquired some very high and commanding reputation as a work of original discovery'. JH agress that students do not have the time or maturity to grasp the whole of mathematics, and thus a university education should concentrate on the fundamentals but still allow room for the specialitites. He is glad that WW 'prefer influencing the state of public opinion both in and out of the university on this subject through the medium of the press to applying for any direct authority from the university to enforce your views at least at present'.
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05 Oct 1845 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH thanks WW for his 'Lectures on Systematic Moarality' [1846]: 'I see you have chapters on the relation of Church and State and on International Law...on both subjects I have not yet quite made up my faggot of opinions - a confesion by the bye I would not make to every body'.
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17 May 1846 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH is glad WW is coming to Southampton for the BAAS meeting 'with a paper in your pocket'. JH has 250-260 pages of his Cape work finished and most of the plates ['Results of Astronomical Observations made during the years 1834-8 at the Cape of Good Hope', 1847].
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02 Sep 1846 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH gives his reasons why WW should not, as has been reported, pledge such a strong declaration of support for John C Adams's and the 'discovery' of Neptune over [Urbain J. J.] Leverrier: If the results of the latter had not 'appeared I think it by no means improbabale that Challis might actually never have turned a telescope to the heavens in search of it at all'. .
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29 Dec 1846 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Lord Auckland has requested JH to organise and edit 'a manual of scientific desiderata and queries to be placed in the hands of officers employed in surveying and exploring expeditions and on other similar services in which useful information may be collected'. JH understands that Lord Auckland asked WW to do something on tides - has he prepaed anything yet?.
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23 Dec 1847 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Advice to WW on the requirements for the Admiralty Manual [see JH to WW, 27 Dec. 1847].
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5 Jan 1848 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. WW's tide paper for the Admiralty Manual is 'anything but too long' - should he not also include something on specialities about insular tides, peculiarities at particular localities, tides up rivers and observations of bores whenever they may occur.
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16 Feb 1848 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH does not think his views differ very much from [Robert L.] Ellis: 'I readily accept his 'hierarchy of causes' and I am quite willing to receive mechanical force as the cause ultimately set in action'. Bodies affect our senses by 'impressing mechanical movements in the nerves'. By 'qualitative action' JH meant 'changes induced on the exercise of forces among the molecules of bodies - alterations of their dynamical energies which alterations I conceive cannot be the result of mere mechanical force which can but push and pull a particle but cannot alter its power to push and pull another, either temporarily or permanently'. JH thinks it likely that when a copper wire acts on a magnetic needle, a power of attraction and repulsion may be transcently communicated to its molecules. Ellis's views 'that one molecule of matter may communicate to another properties itself posseses falls in very well with this and thus power may be propagated along a chain of molecules', but he does not see what the relevance of A's motion to B 'has to do with A's power to impart to B a power to exert force'. Faraday's 'inductive action of magentic currents effectually destroys the usual dynamical relation between force time and velocity for it makes the force by which a particle A of one wire acts on a particle B of another dependent on the relative velocity and direction of A's motion with respect to B'.
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28 Nov 1848 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has got WW's proofs and gives his suggestions for improving his tide paper for the Admiralty Manual [John Herschel ed., 'Admiralty Manual of Scientific Enquiry', 1849]. He has not yet got Frederick Beechey's proofs. Does WW 'think 1 or 2 days enough in a quite strong locality to decide that the tides are regular?' JH gives his view of Neptune's orbit.
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30 Sep 1848 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH requires WW's signiture for business concerning his trust fund and marriage settlement [see Few and Co. Solicitors to WW, 16 Feb. 1849].
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12 Jul 1849 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his two papers. JH did not think Hegel 'had been quite so shallow and conceited'. There are quite a few people who set up Kepler in Newton's place who have never heard of Hegel: they need to be taught 'what is meant by science'. JH gives a problem suggested by a method calculating double star orbits which requires an intrinsic equation.
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19 Oct 1849 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his paper on Aristotle: 'Strange he should have come so near Bacon and yet so aloof from him'. JH suggests to WW that he has shifted his 'meaning somewhat in what you understand by the term 'a conception''. Lord J. [Jefferies] has not nor anybody else consulted him about the visitation .
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05 May 1850 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH is familiar with the action of air and light on the sulphuret of lead. He has taken service in the Royal Commission on the Universities: 'if moderate men and well disposed to the Universities were all to decline, the alternative must be the appointment of people not so disposed - to the great detriment of the cause of sound principles and learning'.
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21 Aug 1850 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Although Murray [book publishers] have not written to JH requesting a new edition of the Admiralty Manual [John Herschel ed., 'Admiralty Manual of Scientific Enquiry', 1849], JH will send any alterations WW has to his tide paper to Murray. .
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1 Sep 1850 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH cannot alter Frederick Beechey's paper without his request and he does not know his address.
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1 Nov 1850 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. When JH has received both WW's and Frederick Beechey's revised papers for the Admiralty Manual [John Herschel ed., 'Admiralty Manual of Scientific Enquiry', 1849], he 'will see how far he can 'bring to a consistency' the forms of tide Registry in both' works. JH is glad WW is working on the mathematical considerations of Political Economy ['Mathematical Exposition of some Doctrines of Political Economy: second Memoir, Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , 1850]: 'I hope you will work out the true differential equations of supply, demand, fertility and stimulus'. JH does not know how far the duities of his new job - Master of the Mint - will effect his former life. .
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20 Dec 1850 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH does not think that WW's and Frederick Beechey's two forms of tide registry are inconsistent 'only that they are each a more condensed abstract of the other with some additional matter in the way of conclusions drawn'. Beechey provides two forms, of which, WW's form can be filled in from the second -''Registry of tides -...for the month''. WW thanks JH for his political economy concerning the question of exchanges and currency: 'I think you and Jacob [William Jacob] overestimate the 'wear and tear'. There is a distinction - Fair wear and tear is I apprehend very small and as for what is lost by unfair it is only lost to the coin but not to the stock of Bullion in the country as it goes forthwith...into the melting pot and thence into the market'. JH wants WW's notion of a decimal coinage.
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02 Feb 1851 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH did not mean to imply that the observer using WW's tide paper in the Admiralty Manual [John Herschel ed., 'Admiralty Manual of Scientific Enquiry', 1849] should be familiar with all WW's tide papers in the Phil. Trans., but that his tide registry table cannot be at once and simply filled in from observation. It is a registry of results. Each entry is a conclusion from many readings of the tide gage and the clock'. If WW does not approve of Frederick Beechey's forms then he should give some other form. For the methodical observation of the heights and time of high and low water it is best to have printed forms. .
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04 Feb 1851 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH thinks both WW's and Frederick Beechey's respective forms for tide registry liable to mistakes [John Herschel ed., 'Admiralty Manual of Scientific Enquiry', 1849]. He therefore proposes an alternative version which he has enclosed.
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07 Feb 1851 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has made a 'trifling alteration' to WW's tide paper, and if WW does not approve he should inform the printers: 'and so ends my editorship of edn. II' [John Herschel ed., 'Admiralty Manual of Scientific Enquiry', 1849].
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14 Mar 1851 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Hind [John Russell Hind] and Bishop [George Bishop] are delighted with WW's 'name Eviene (vulgo Irene) for the new planet' [JRH was supervisor to GB at his amateur observatory at Regents Park and spent 9 years searching for small planets - he 'discovered' 10 asteroids].
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23 May 1851 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH hopes to dine with two rpresentatives of French Science in the Jury of Philosophical Instruments on Saturday followed by a visit to Lord Rosse's [William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse] - can WW join them? .
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1 Jun 1851 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH, Ryan [Edward Ryan?], J. S. Lefevre, T. L. Hodges and JH have concluded that 'a letter drawn up by Lefevre on a full knowledge of all the circumstances should be signed by some of Jone's friends and handed in to Lord J. Russell personally by Mr. Hodges - The letter is probably about RJ's work on the Tithe Commission. .
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25 Jul 1851 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH's views of WW's anonymously written 'Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay', 1853: 'I can't give in my adhesion to the doctrine that between this and the angelic there are not some dozen or two grades of intellectual and moral creatures'. As for his own existence it 'is limited now to the one and only idea of making money'. .
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30 Nov 1853 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. On the possibility of JH's son (Alexander Herschel) entering Trinity College in October 1855: 'I am sure at present he deserves it - for he is a very good lad and has excellent talents though rather oversensitive and impressionable'.
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28 Oct 1854 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH and Margaret Herschel will be delighted to see WW. He is very pleased to hear that WW is editing Jone's posthumous works - JH has some sheets of RJ's lectures which went to the press but were never published. He is grieved to hear that George Peacock is so ill. 'What a queer book that is of Herbert Spencer!'.
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12 Apr 1857 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH will be sorry if his eldest daughters are absent during WW's visit. .
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05 May 1857 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH congratulates WW on his forthcoming marriage [1 July 1858] to Lady Frances E Affleck. .
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21 Jun 1858 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH encloses a note he got from George Airy with a suggestion identical to the course JH 'had prepared to take having first written to the Sec. of the B. Assoc. to enquire with whom we are to communicate on their part'. If WW and Peacock approve he will write to Edward Sabine accordingly. Has WW any 'ideas' generally on magnetic observations: It strikes JH that a great deal of the existing machinery could be dispensed with and 'what we now need is in the nature of magnetic surveys, with a few fixed establishments to keep up connexion between the past and future'.
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30 Jan 1858 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. 'Cooke's is in the 5th vol of the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [Josiah Parsons Cooke, 'The Relation Between the Atomic Weights', 1854] Whether his classification is a great new step you are a better judge than I am - It was new to me when I read it'. JH gives a brief review of Cooke's theory [that elements can be arranged in six series in the manner of organic compounds, and with the atomic weights of each series progressing by integral multiples of an integer unique to that series - Ref. George S. Forbes, DSB, pp. 397-398] and those working in the field. JH would be obliged if WW could send him half a page explaining capillary attraction.
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19 Apr 1858 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his account of how 'capillary attraction used to be put in the good old time. I must confess I am not convinced - still less by Young's notice that the column is held up by the tension of the upper surface'. JH is to write a brief biographical sketch of George Peacock for the Royal Society, and needs WW's help with dates and events at Cambridge relating to GP.
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17 Dec 1858 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Edward Sabine will send WW a draft copy of a report on the progress of the BAAS 'Metorological and Magnetic Committee' which JH has drawn up. If WW has any objections or anything to add send it directly to ES. JH is sure he will agree to any addition WW or Lloyd [Humphrey Lloyd] may make. JH is feeling too weak and ill to attend the BAAS meeting.
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04 Sep 1859 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his two letters. He did not reply to the last because he did not think it would reach Dublin in time for the BAAS meeting: 'what you say is certainly very satisfactory'. [M. Perranet] called on his way to Paris and showed JH 'a pretty little reflector of [electrosilkened] glass which with about 4 in aperture and some 2 feet focus bore 200 very satisfactorily. It is not a thing to be pooh-poohed as the Dublin meeting seemed disposed to do'. JH is not surprised WW has been ill with the summer's heat, travelling and the BAAS meeting.
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17 Sep 1859 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH sends WW the beginning of his Hexameter translation of book one of the 'Iliad': 'So far as the question as to the nationalisation of the Hexameter goes I am not dissatisfied with it, as there seems to me to be no appearance of constraint, and no material violation of accent in reading the lines but it assuredly does read bald and homely'. However, Homer's diction is also homely and in comparison to Pope is also bald. The English blank verse comes with a class at the end, while the Hexameter makes up for its terminal weakness by its initial form: 'The one is epigramatic, the other impulsive. The one belongs to a natural and somewhat artificial literature, the other to a nascent and majestic one'. .
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12 Dec 1861 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH is preparing 'a popular lecture on the sun adapted to the meridian of our Hawkhurst trades folks and farmers'. He is also producing a translation of the first book of the 'Iliad' into Hexameters: 'It is shockingly bald and homely by the side of Pope - but I flatter myself a good deal more like Homer'.
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05 Jan 1861 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his Plato Vol. 3 [WW's trans. of Plato's 'Republic', 1861]. JH gives his reply to WW's observations on the beginning of JH's translation of the first book of Homer's 'Iliad' [see JH to WW, 12 Dec. 1861].
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22 Jan 1862 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH thanks WW for his remarks on his translation of book one of Homer's 'Iliad': 'I have adopted your suggestions all but one or two'. He has also begun the Second Book , but has not got far as he is constructing a 'general index catalogue of nebulae' with the aid of George Airy. JH's son Alexander Herschel is a candiadate for the Professorship of Natural Philosophy at the Andersonian University of Glasgow: 'If in addition [to signing his certificate] you should think that he would be likely to make a good professor and in that case would express that opinion to the Secretary W. Ambrose...it would be a great help to him'. .
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10 Apr 1862 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH does not like book two of Homer's 'Iliad': 'The catalogue of ships is simply abominable - the whole book is such a falling off from book 1 that (but for other characteristic marks) I should scarcely believe is written by the same author'. JH does not want to see any other translations in advance of his own and 'of those I have seen I like my own best'.
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17 Apr 1862 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has not been working much on his translation of Homer's 'Iliad'. He will not be attending the BAAS meeting in October: 'that sort of thing is more than I can face now'. DeMorgan has sent him a spoof of the opening of book one of the 'Iliad' [JH encloses a copy]. .
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08 May 1862 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH claims he thought he had sent WW 'my atoms' and encloses another off-print [JH, 'On Atoms' - 4 printed pages - dated 16 Oct. 1860]. Thanks WW for his remarks on his translation of Homer's 'Iliad'. JH asks: 'What is to be done in the matter of this lamentable blow up between [George] Airy and [Edward] Sabine, - Surely A has taken up the matter in a very high handed and violent manner' [GA wants to expel ES as Chairman of the Board of Visitors to the Greenwich Observatory]. JH had been unaware that there had been any bickering at the BAAS. .
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29 Oct 1862 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH will be sending WW 'a modified copy of the Maclear [Thomas Maclear] memorial', all he has to do is sign it and return it to JH. C. P. Smyth [Charles Piazzi Smyth] has informed JH that there 'is a provision (by superannuation fund deduction) for his retirement' which means JH has to cancel what has already been done.
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23 Dec 1862 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Business concerning Thomas Maclear's testimonial and a mistake regarding a provision for his retirement. WW is to annex his signiture where indicated [see JH to WW, 23 Dec. 1862]. Could WW get Challis's [James Challis] signiture also and then return the form to JH.
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10 Jan 1863 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his lectures on Political Economy ['Six Lectures on Political Economy', 1862]. JH can imagine WW in his cape and gown lecturing to the Prince of Wales seated on a stool, 'note book in hand...drinking in the words of wisdom'. Regarding the book: 'So then the good old theory of Rent is exploded and auxiliary capital is the word! Well well live and learn'. Illness in the family. .
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22 Jan 1863 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his annotations to JH's translation of Homer's 'Iliad', and shows WW where he thinks he has misread him. Book five is nearly finished but JH does not like it. Marcia Herschel hopes to be well enough to accept WW's invitation - along with Amelia Herschel - to Trinity Lodge. JH attaches a short verse of translation. .
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10 Feb 1864 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his remarks concerning JH's translation of Homer's 'Iliad', and gives his reply to WW's comments. JH is thinking of stopping at book six and getting his translations printed. However he has started book seven - 'not to mind a pleasing book. Homer is too hard upon Hector in making him so evidently no match for Ajax'. JH has given WW's friend Mr Kindt [Hermann Kindt] 'a castigation' for criticising Pope. .
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11 Apr 1864 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH sends WW his translation of book six of the 'Iliad', and thanks him for his 'just and welcome' notes on his translation of book five. JH has compared his translation to others, and prefers his own since it does not 'gallop so oppresively...which always makes me seasick and puts me in mind of making game'. Marcia, Amelia and William Herschel have returned from their stay at the Whewells. Maragret Herschel is now off the sick list but JH has had terrible bronchitis.
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02 Apr 1864 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH sends WW book seven of his translation of Homer's 'Iliad' and has begun work on book eight. Jh has not enjoyed translating book seven and is 'conscious of having done it less 'piously' than the others'. Book six has really benefited from some of WW's suggestions. William Herschel is to be married on Thursday. JH can not get rid of his illness [bronchitis - see JH to WW, 2 April 1864].
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16 May 1864 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his remarks [on JH's translation of Homer's 'Iliad' - book seven], and gives his response to them.
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1 Jun 1864 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH was not sure whether WW was abroad or not: 'So I now (taking it for granted that you are in College) send book xi which I finished not long since and am now advanced some way in book xii'. JH is thinking of publishing all the books he has translated so far of Homer's 'Iliad'. JH is still ill with bronchitis which he has now had since mid-January: 'when it goes , I fancy it will take me with it'.
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21 Oct 1864 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH sends WW his translation of book fourteen of Homer's 'Iliad', and hopes WW is not getting too tired of the subject: 'for the very name of a translation of Homer is beginning to nauseate the Public'. JH notes that yet another Hexameter translation is coming out 'by a Mr. Saxton or Simpson? or some such name!...I spare you that it is dead weight'. JH is still suffering from bronchitis. JH does not think he will be able to get his translation printed: 'Longman whom I contacted about printing the 1st half as vol. i. fights shy of it altogether and talks about the general prejudice aginst Hexameters etc'. William Herschel and his wife have arrived in Calcutta. .
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18650129 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. The wedding of Marcia is fixed for the 12th of next month: 'The more we see of the young man the better we like him'. [Marcia] can thus no longer take up WW's invitation to stay at the Lodge but Amelia can stay some time in early November. Julia Herschel is in Switzerland. JH has nearly finished his translation of all the books of Homer's 'Iliad'.
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27 Sep 1865 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. If JH's newly married daughter [Marcia] and husband are now with WW could he give Marcia the annexed. The wedding 'went off very prettily'. A Mr Prescott, a man of high scientific learning, very cultivated and an agreeable person, is going to take up residence in Cambridge. Prescott is an old Trinitarian and would like to be introduced to WW. .
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24 Oct 1865 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH has sent WW his translation of book twenty-four of Homer's 'Iliad', and does not want WW 'to be sparing in criticism'. JH does not think he will find a publisher for it. JH is expecting Marcia [JH's daughter] and her husband next Monday. Amelia Herschel will be escorted to WW's by Alexander Herschel who will then go straight to Norwich to give some lectures.
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09 Nov 1865 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH is having problems finding a publisher for his translation of Homer's 'Iliad'. JH has used WW's name in order to send Matthew Arnold - whom he does not know personally - books one and two, but fears they have different notions of English hexameters. Bella [Isabella] and Amelia enjoyed their stay at WW's. JH is feeling very old. He is pleased WW thinks Jevons [William Stanley Jevons] has taken too gloomy a view of the coal question, although JH cannot help thinking that 'there is course for very serious thoughts of our national future'. When coal supplies run out 'our civilisation will then have to fall'.
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7 Dec 1865 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Could WW sound out Macmillan the publishers and see if they would be interested in publishing his translaion of Homer's 'Iliad' - even though so many translations have now appeared. Another posibility would be to 'print (with some other pieces) selected passages, comprising all what are usually considered Homer's great passages'.
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11 Dec 1865 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. JH thanks WW for his notes to JH's translation of book twenty-four of Homer's 'Iliad': He has carried out all but one or two of WW'suggestions. JH thinks Homer must have written other books due to the abrupt end.
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30 Nov 1865 |
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John Herschel to William Whewell. Macmillan are to publish JH's translation of Homer's 'Iliad' and he wishes to dedicate it to WW. On WW's suggestion he sent books one and two to Prof. Arnold [Matthew Arnold]. Bella [Isabella Herschel] 'never ceases talking of you and Mrs. Douglas's [Stair Douglas] kindness to her at Lowestoft'. JH has had another severe attack of bronchitis.
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14 Jan 1866 |
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Alexander Herschel to William Whewell. AH securing WW's support and signiture for a testimonial letter for his stand as a candidate for a lectureship on Natural Philosophy now vacant at the Andersonian Institute at Galsgow.
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10 Mar 1862 |
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Few and Co. Solcitors to William Whewell. Due to the death of James Grahame and the departure of Patrick Stewart to India, John Hercshel needs to appoint two new trustees to the Herschels trust fund [�12,000 in 3 per cent reduced Bank annuuities]. As WW is one of the other two trustees they need his signiture. .
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16 Feb 1849 |
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William Ince to William Whewell. WI has read WW's 'beautiful Bridgewater treatise ['Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology', 4th edn. 1839] with great delight and pleasure' and would like his autograph . WI suggests that sound behaves in the same way as pebbles hitting water cause circles: 'why should not sounds pass through the air and cause displacements around in like manner?' Its reach would depend on the force of the sound and the resistance it encountered. .
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04 Sep 1839 |
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James Ingram to William Whewell. Thanks WW for 'correcting the errors of the Post, and transmitting the curious brochure sent by my friend Mr. Wilson'. JI was to go with Mr. Wison on a barrow-hunting excursion but has decided not to: 'But if any body can bring a Druid out of his grave Mr. Wilson has the perseverance to do it'.
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25 Aug 1846 |
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James Ivory to William Whewell. JI would like an explanation of a short passage in WW's discussion of the conception of fluidity, given in his 'Thoughts on the Study of Mathematics as Part of a Liberal Education' [1835]. On page 30 WW makes a citation which he describes as typical reasoning 'among our mathematicians' [WW has seemingly taken a quote by JI: ''A fluid is a body, the parts of which are perfectly moveable in all directions; if therefore a force act in any direction upon any particle of it, there must be, acting on the same particle, equal forces in all other directions.'' WW then writes 'Now this is palpably a fallacy. If a particle be kept at rest by forces acting on it, the only consequence which follows from the laws of mechanics is, that it must be acted on by pairs of equal and opposite forces: we cannot hence infer the smallest necessity that the lateral forces should be equal to the vertical ones'.] JI does not know why the citation is inconsistent with WW's reasoning: 'Is not the citation true of a particle of a fluid, although that particle be subjected to the action of any pairs of forces such as you describe, which impress no motion in any direction? Is not the condition of the particle the same as if it was entirely free from the action of any such forces?' JI asks WW: 'Is the citation from any of my Papers? If so, have the goodnes to specify the passage?' JI suspects that the real reason WW included this in his pamphlet was 'to support the principle which is universally assumed as sufficient for the equilibrium of a homogenous mass fluid at liberty, namely, that a fluid mass is necessarily in equilibrium when every particle is pressed equally by all canals down from it to the upper surface?...That the equilibrium of the mass is a self-evident consequence of the Principle of the canals, or, if you please, of that principle conjoined with perpendicularity of the forces to the upper surface. See Prof. Airy's Tracts, 2nd edit. p.146, �28'. JI wants WW to specify what he intended by this passage.
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19 Jan 1836 |
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Charles Thomas Jackson to William Whewell. CTJ's place in the history of the inductive science of Physiology, relating to the discovery of etherism. He gives an account of his experience with ether. His experiments 'led me to conclude that the nerves of sensation were paralysed by the ether, and I ventured to declare confidently to my friends, that I had discovered a means of averting the pain of surgical operations'. CTJ wants WW to sanction his claim as the discoverer of the application of ether in surgical operations [His student William T G Morton, a student of CTJ's, had demonstrated to a group of students and physicians in October 1846 the use of ether as a general anesthetic, and applied for a patent. CTJ in turn claimed he had discovered it. He also claimed to have told Samuel F. B. Morse the principles of the electric telegraph which Morse had patented in 1840. In 1873 he was committed to McLean Hospital as diagnosed insane. See his entry in the DSB by George E. Gifford, Jr., Vol. VII, pp. 44-46].
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24 Apr 1849 |
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Charles Thomas Jackson to William Whewell. CTJ thanks WW for his letter and interest in his claims to the discovery of etherism [see CTJ to WW, 24 April 1849]. He is sorry that WW has given up the idea of of doing an inductive history of physiology. CTJ has just completed his Report on the Geology and Mineralogy of the Copper and Silver bearing lands of the US and Lake Superior and submitted it to the Government [CTJ was First State Geologer of Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire and issued reports in 1837, 1838 and 1839. He was discharged in 1847, see DSB]. He gives a description of the content of his geological and mineralogical survey.
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18 Dec 1849 |
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John Kaye to William Whewell. JK thanks WW for the copy of his 'Mineralogical Classification' ['An Essay on Mineralogical Classification and Nomenclature', 1828]. He hopes again to receive the opinions of the Philosophical Society at Christs Lodge [From 1814 JK was Master of Christs College and from 1816 Regious Professor of Divinity].
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20 Nov 1828 |
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Robert Jameson to William Whewell. Due to official duties at the College he will be unable to attend the BAAS meeting at Cambridge [the letter has a printed picture of the internal arrangement of the museum].
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18 Jun 1833 |
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Robert Jameson to James David Forbes. RJ would like a copy of WW's lecture to the Society of Arts ['The General Bearing of the Great Exhibition of the Progreass of Art and Science', 1851], and would like to print it in the 'Edinburgh Philosophical Journal'. Bronchitis has left him feeling very weak.
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27 Nov 1850 |
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Thomas Janett. TJ has enclosed a specimen of an unpublished method of marking Latin quantities, which he devised in 1848. He hopes WW's favourable opinion of it will add to its general adoption.
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16 Oct 1863 |
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Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey to William Whewell. FJ will be setting out for Scotland before mid-May and does not think he will be able to take up WW's invitation to stay at Trinity College Lodge. 'Strange times, these we live in! - and visibly pregnant with great changes'.
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10 Apr 1846 |
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James Amiraux Jeremie to William Whewell. The new editor of the Christian Remembrancer is very keen to have a review of [Brock's - William Brock?] christian morals, and would like WW to do it.
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05 Oct 1840 |
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James Amiraux Jeremie to William Whewell. JAJ [Regious Professor of Divinity from 1850 at Cambridge] is having trouble explaining extracts from Sanderson [Robert Sanderson?] and needs to consult works which he has not got access to where he is. He hopes to be in Cambridge in a few days.
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13 Jan 1851 |
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Antoine Jobert to William Whewell. [There are two notes attached to this letter of an earlier date: The first is an attempt to show WW the difference between his view of the mind (Lockean) and WW's (Kantian) - 'Our senses form the natural link between two opposite realities, viz: our mind and the external world'. The second note declares that he is to add his argument against WW in his book, which is part of a larger project opposing the views of Kant. WW's view on gold does not impugn AJ's argument 'that gold cannot exist without form , and that therefore I cannot have the sensation of the matter gold without having in the same time the sensation of a form of gold']. Thanks WW for his answer to AJ's note critisising WW's philosophy. He still thinks WW's explanation is not sufficient: 'Since matter cannot exist withhout form, form is as well as matter a condition of our sensations'. Numbers are a simple quality of matter. AJ presents a Lockean argument in opposition to WW's notion of fundamental ideas. AJ has formulated his view of Kant into two pages, which if WW is interested he will send him. .
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30 Oct 1847 |
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Antoine Jobert to William Whewell. AJ has sent WW the passage in his book where he opposes him over the form of gold. WW claims that the substance of gold itself is ''collected, not from the evidence of the sense, but from the operations of our ideas' in other words the substance or the matter of gold is a necessary and universal truth an idea which cannot be aquired by experience!' [This is part of AJ's Lockean attack on Kantian views, see AJ to WW, 30 October 1847 ].
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03 Nov 1847 |
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Joseph Jopling to William Whewell. It is now over a year since WW saw some of JJ's [English artist and soldier] work at the Architectural Museum. He had sought 'to invite attention, to the 'source' of true scientific forms and proportions, applicable to art'. He wrote to Lord Stanley on the value and extent to which he had 'determined simple and practical geometrical facts, systematically, and connectedly, far beyond what is taught at schools'. JJ does not know if any mathematican such as WW, 'has been desired by, or given to, the Board of Trade' an account of what he as done. JJ describes the defective teaching of geometry to architects and artizans: 'the theory of the schools in reference to truth, and character of curved lines, however it may expand the mind of the mathematician, is not sufficent practically for instructing either the mind or the eye of architects and artists'.
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03 Aug 1857 |
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Joseph Jopling to William Whewell. Further to WW's lecture at St. Martin's Hall in which he gave an example of the geometry of a sheet of paper: JJ encloses an example of the generation of three curved lines aided by two strips of paper, a ruler, a fixed point and a T square. A mould is taken of the first curve and the T Square is then used instead of the straight ruler: The same process is then repeated for the third curve. Any other straight line can now be drawn across the three curves. JJ's example 'shows how all the three curves may be generated at the same time by three T squares linked together'. He concludes: 'Many other results can be obtained by such simple repeated movements, and their relations to curved solids made manifest by simple geometrical laws'. .
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19 Oct 1857 |
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S Jones to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his letter and the 'frankness' with which he expressed himself over a problem SJ had sent to him over equations applied to a pulley: The 'inferences from which I deduced the absurdities were made without reflecting that the force, which sustains P, acts on the opposite side of the tangent plane on which P may be supposed to rest, and consequently has a tendency to increase the pressure'. SJ is aware that not only the demonstration of Taylor's theorem but also those of the Binomial are mainly considered defective. These objections 'are much like those which Geometers make to the doctrine of Parallel lines'- both objections get in the way of investigation.
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29 Oct 1826 |
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C N J to William Whewell. An anon. correspondent advising WW to get his work on Gothic architecture reprinted ['Architectural Notes on German Churches, with Remarks on the Origin of Gothic Architecture' 1830]: 'The circulation of the work would advance the interests of science by the collection and generalization of facts in support of a highly interesting theory; and it may serve to stimulate the curiosity of many to take up a study, which in common with others , can only tend to advance civilisation'.
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23 Jan 1833 |
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Joseph Kay to William Whewell. JK regrets WW found his 'Latin so very defective', and will take care that his second letter 'may give you entire satsifaction'. He hopes to send WW his first Englsh Report on Primary Education in Europe, in part as a thankyou for WW recommending him to the Senate and the promises he had made to WW [JK was awarded by the Senate at WW's recommendation the Travelling Bachelorship in order to enable him to conduct the research of the above report. He was also required to produce three latin letters for the Vice-Chancellor, see JK to WW, 4 April 1846].
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14 Mar 1846 |
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Joseph Kay to William Whewell. JK is sorry that his Report ['First English Report on Primary Education in Europe', see JK to WW, 3 March 1846] should have given WW cause for displeasure. JK was under the impression that in additon to the three latin letters which the trust required him to forward to the Vice-Chancellor, he would be expected to publish a report of his researches - which he has done.
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04 Apr 1846 |
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Philip Kelland to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his paper [probably 'On the Fundamental Antihesis of Philosophy', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 7, pt. 2, 1845]: 'The question at issue [between WW and John Herschel] appears to me to be not about the [fact] of the [indifferent] action of the mind, but about its extent. Everyone admits, I presume, the suggestive agency of experience...The question is, does experience act as a directive power at all, and if so to what extent? The exact limitation which is to be assigned to it, is the real difficulty in the question to my mind'. PK cannot clearly reconcile WW's differences with John Herschel's or indeed WW's earlier views from his later ones. PK believes that the mind posseses an innate faculty of cognition, which is brought into action by the ''sense to produce perfect Conceptions''. .
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13 May 1844 |
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Philip Kelland to William Whewell. PK would like to read his paper 'On the Elasticity of the Ether in Crystals' ['On the Dispersion of Light, as Explained by the Hypothesis of Finite Intervals', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 1838] next Monday. However, since his paper differs with Augustine Fresnel over a certain point and WW does not approve of any differences with Fresnel's Memoir, he would be happy to discuss it with WW first.
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1836 |
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Philip Kelland to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his 'work which you have so kindly sent me' [probably 'Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay, 1853].
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27 Dec 1853 |
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Johann J Kellner to William Whewell.
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14 Apr 1840 |
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Johann J Kellner to William Whewell.
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5 Jan 1841 |
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Johann J Kellner to William Whewell.
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10 Jan 1841 |
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Johann J Kellner to William Whewell.
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05 Jun 1841 |
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Johann J Kellner to William Whewell.
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02 May 1841 |
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Johann J Kellner to William Whewell.
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24 Jul 1844 |
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Leonard Jenyns to William Whewell. LJ sends WW Numbers one and three of Thompson's Zoological Researches [John Vaughan Thompson, 'Zoological Researches and Illustrations', a series of five pamphlets, Cork, 1828-1834].
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9 Jul 1834 |
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Charles Ker to [?] Heaviade. Kerr has always been very proud of having brought Jones [Richard Jones?] and Lord Brougham together, particularly since the latter did not really want to. Nevertheless, after meeting Brougham admitted that Jones 'was one of the most remarkable men he had met'.
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22 Nov 1856 |
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Hermann Kindt to William Whewell.
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26 Oct 1863 |
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Hermann Kindt to William Whewell.
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01 Feb 1864 |
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Hermann Kindt to William Whewell.
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27 Oct 1865 |
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Hermann Kindt to William Whewell.
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02 Nov 1865 |
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Joshua King to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his 'valuable and much esteemed present' [his poem on Boadicea for which he won the Chancellor's Medal for the best English poem ].
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21 Jul 1814 |
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J King to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his architectural notes ['Architectural Notes on German Churches, with Remarks on the Origin of Gothic Architecture' 1830]. JK hopes they have many opportunities to discuss their favourite subject when they meet.
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11 Feb 1831 |
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Charles Kingsley to William Whewell. Thanks WW for his Platonic Dialogues ['The Platonic Dialogues for English Readers' 1860-61]: By introducing Plato in this way to the general reader, WW is 'supplying a considerable want'. CK will shortly be in Cambridge and would appreciate advice concerning his Professorship. .
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20 Sep 1860 |
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Douglas Kinnaird to William Whewell. DK sends WW a letter from Mr. Bowring [John Bowring?] which he thinks will answer the object of WW's communication to him.
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04 Dec 1823 |
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Charles Knight to John W Lubbock. CK is sorry that the separate table of tides escaped his recollection. He will pass on JWL's directions to his assistant immeadiately.
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25 Feb 1835 |
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Robert Rowe Knott to William Whewell. RRK is again seeking patronage from WW for the 4th part of his work (now in press) of the 'New Aid to Memory' designed to impress upon the memory 100 valuable facts and dates from the New Testament. Part three sold 2,000 copies. He is seeking to tempt the subscribers of the former parts to again purchase a copy or two of the latest instalment.
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10 Feb 1844 |
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Gogel, Koch and Co. to William Whewell. Johann J. Kellner has sent to Gogel, Koch and Co. a small case of glass paintings which they are to send to Mr. Lonsdale at Somerset House. WW is to give Lonsdale directions concerning their dispersal. Payment is to be made to JJK via them.
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17 Mar 1844 |
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Gogel, Koch and Co. to William Whewell. WW is to pay for the glass paintings through his Cambridge bankers to Edward Buckley Fox, 80 Bond St., London. Once they have news that Fox has the money they will forward Johann J. Kellner the equivalent sum [see Gogel, Koch and Co. to WW, 17 March 1844]. .
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21 Aug 1844 |
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Christina Kohl to William Whewell.
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Christina Kohl to Isaac Todhunter.
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