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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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3 letters from Stephen Lee; 2 letters from John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel invents the actinometer to measure the heating power of the Sun’s rays

1825

Autograph letter signed by sender. A notice of meeting of the Royal Society [of London] committee to improve glass.

Reference number: HS/26/25
1826

John Frederick William Herschel publishes in the Philosophical Transactions

1826: John Frederick William Herschel publishes “On the parallax of the fixed stars”.

1827

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce presents his photographs in England for the first time

1827

Requesting access to original manuscripts from the Society's archives to compare printed copies of the Greenwich observations, due to errors found in editions of 1822 and 1823.

Reference number: MC/1/152
1828

Draft letter. There is no truth in SL's statement to James Ivory regarding work on the figure of the earth belonging exclusively to John Frederick William Herschel. Has written to Ivory stating the facts of the misunderstanding.

Reference number: HS/11/187

Autograph letter signed by sender. When he last saw James Ivory at the British Museum, no mention was made of John Frederick William Herschel's name. Thinks the remarks of Ivory are caused by mental disease.

Reference number: HS/11/188

Copy of draft letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. There is no truth in SL's statement to James Ivory regarding work on the figure of the earth belonging exclusively to John Frederick William Herschel. Has written to Ivory stating the facts of the misunderstanding.

Reference number: HS/21/18