Skip to content

Please be aware that some material may contain words, descriptions or illustrations which will not reflect current scientific understanding and may be considered in today's context inaccurate, unethical, offensive or distressing.

Letter, from Johann Franz Encke to Sir John Herschel, dated at Berlin

Reference number: HS/7/86

Date: 8 June 1828

Description

Autograph letter signed by sender. Sending the first volume of his Ephemerides for the Astronomical Society, also for Francis Baily and W. H. Smyth. Comments on various aspects of the Ephemerides. Thanks for John Frederick William Herschel's excellent work on Light.

Reference number
HS/7/86
Earliest possible date
8 June 1828
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Johann Franz Encke

View page for Johann Franz Encke

Use this record

Citation

Johann Franz Encke, Letter, from Johann Franz Encke to Sir John Herschel, dated at Berlin, 8 June 1828, HS/7/86, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_7_86/letter-from-johann-franz-encke-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-berlin, accessed on 08 December 2025

Link to this record

Embed this record

<iframe src="https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/embed/items/hs_7_86/letter-from-johann-franz-encke-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-berlin" title="Letter, from Johann Franz Encke to Sir John Herschel, dated at Berlin" allow="fullscreen" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe>

Hierarchy

This item is part of:

Related Fellows

Map

Explore the collection

  • Herschel Letters

    This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.

    Dates: 1807 - 1875

    View collection