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Notebook

Herschel/Box 3/James 518
Item
1816

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

Draft of Lacroix translation. (An elementary treatise on the differential and integral calculus by S. F. Lacroix, translated by Herschel from the French and printed in 1816.) 85 sheets

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Notebook

Herschel/Box 3/James 519
Item
1832

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

An address to the young gentleman of the mathematical classes in the south African College at the Cape of Good Hope, December 1832

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Notebook

Herschel/Box 3/James 520
Item
1837 (Undated, so date is estimated.)

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

Draft review of works on geomagnetism by Gauss, Humboldt, and R. S. L. (himself?). 31 sheets 1 side each, mostly fair copy - little correction.
Draft review of Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences. 64 pages lightly corrected, 5 or so heavily altered

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/17/3
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16 Nov. 1848

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Pierce's Perturbations of Uranus. J.C.A's On the perturbations of Uranus. [Neptune].

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 24/24/13/4
Item
1819-1892 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Offer of printed copy of portrait of JFWH.

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 33/8/fol.43
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2 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Transcript of RGO Archives 7/247 fol.52, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter, signed, from Herschel to A.J. Carrighan (BA 1803), from Slough

Herschel/Box 1/Carrighan/Box 2/3-4/14
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28 December 1827

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Declines offer of Plumian Chair of astronomy but is flattered by sentiments expressed. Herschel states that he is not sure whether he wants to concentrate solely on astronomy after he has completed his father's work on nebulae. He feels he is better as a private amateur than as a professor and also wishes to pursue other lines of work

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter, signed, from Herschel to Miles Bland, from Slough

Herschel/Box 1/Bland/D11
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29 December 1814

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Sends Bland a number of mathematical problems Herschell had posed during an 'uncomfortable ride from London to Slough, with disagreeable companions'

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter, signed, from Herschel to Rev. John William Whittaker

Herschel/Box 1/Letter 2
Item
20 February 1813

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Tells of hectic social life interspersed with some study. Asks for news of Cambridge and to be remembered to friends

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Notebook

Herschel/Box 2/James 510
Item
1839 (Much of the work is undated.)

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

Lunar Theory
Determination of unknown functions
A few pages on Law of Refraction, apparently from the History of Math article, or possibly from 'isoperimetrical problem' as these two sheets appear to have been one.
Isoperimetrical problem
On the chemical action of the rays of the solar spectrum
Photographic MSS, with three pages of 5 interleaved in one spot.
Spectra (emission? absorption?) of photographic papers
Notes on the art of photography or the application of the chemical rays of light to the purposes of pictorial representation. (13 leaves, 1839)

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

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