- Herschel/Box 2/James 511
- Item
- 1830 (Undated, so date is estimated)
Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel
Contents:
- On the Nautical Almanac (for the Board of Longitude)
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer
Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel
Contents:
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer
Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel
Contents:
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer
Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel
Contents:
Essay; 'Sound'
Essay; 'Light' (2nd half of essay - mostly sections on polarized light)
Comet orbits
Part III of 'On the Theory of the Moon'
Part I of 'Light' with doodles and a letter from Lardner.
A notebook for the section 'reflexion of light'
On letters from South
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer
Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel
Contents:
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer
Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel
Contents:
The report of the Committee for Magnetical and Meteorological Cooperation, 1843 (16 pages). Members of the 1st Committee were Dean of Ely, Dr Lloyd and Herschel.
The report of Sir John Herschel on the reduction of meteorological observations (21 pages)
A discussion of the results of 'Antartic' (sic) expedition and observations at Toronto
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer
Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel
Contents:
Consideration of various points in analysis. Published (with alterations) in Philosophical Transactions (1814). 25 numbered pages.
On the action of crystals with two axes on homogeneous light and on the cause of the deviation from Newton's scale in the tints which they develop on exposure to a polarized ray, Philosophical Transactions 110 (1820, 45-100. Read 23 December 1819. Pages of observations and/or calculations 'with some duplicate and some miscellaneous papers'. Two drafts, included a few corrected proof sheets, of this most important paper and some notes to the printer.
On aberration. A draft with some proof sheets, with comparatively few corrections and annotations, but possibly important ones.
Observations of the apparent distances and positions of double and triple stars made in the years 1821, 1822, 1823, Philosophical Transactions 114 (1824), part 3, 1-21.
On the separation of iron from other metals. Draft MSS for Philosophical Transactions 111 (1821), 293-9. Read 5 April 1821.
MSS notes for 1824 Bakerian Lecture to the Royal Society on electricity (c. 15 20 leaves, heavily corrected).
On the development of exponential functions together with several new theorems relating to finite differences (2 copies, c. 30 pages each).
On the general laws of the isochromatic bands in 'chrystals', 17 April 1819 (never published). This is interleaved in the main Philosophical Transaction article, the pagination of which is most confused. There are apparently only 4 sheets, both sides each, of a very rough draft with unfinished sketches
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer
Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel
Contents:
'On the rotation in Plagiedial Quartz', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol 1, 43-52, read 17 April 1820.
'On the Development of Tints', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 1, 20-41, read 24 February 1820.
More sketches here than in published papers with many pages crossed out entirely
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer
Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel
Contents:
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer
Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel
Contents:
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer
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