Talk:William Herschel/Archive 4

satelites of saturn and uranus
would it not be better put to refer to these moons as moons rather than the less understood term satelites?

69.54.12.10 23:11, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Polish?
The polish version of the page appears to have been substituted for the English version. Not good for a featured page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bigmac31 (talk • contribs) 18:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC).

English!
That's better Bigmac31 18:51, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

wheat prices
can someone please expand on Herschel's recognition of a connection between sunspot cycles and wheat prices Remcee 23:02, 13 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Good idea. I understand that this constituted his discovery of what's today called global warming. I'll see if I can pry some spare time loose from my vast time vaults, the door of which seems currently stuck. Snezzy (talk) 17:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * There's a section in Sir William Herschel His Life and Works (1881) which may be of use:


 * When the possible connection of solar and terrestrial phenomena occurred to him as a question to be tested, there were no available meteorological records, and he could find but four or five short series of observations, widely separated in time. To an ordinary thinker the task would have seemed hopeless until more data had been collected. But Herschel's fertile mind, though it could not recall lost opportunities for solar observations, did find a substitute for meteorological records in the statistics of the prices of grain during the various epochs. It is clear that the price of wheat must have depended upon the supply, and the supply, in turn, largely upon the character of the season. The method, as ingenious as it is, failed in Herschel's hands on account of the paucity of solar statistics; but it has since proved of value, and has taken its place as a recognized method of research.


 * Hope this is of interest. (I'm new here)
 * Slowbrownfox (talk) 14:34, 3 March 2009 (UTC)