Sir William Herschel papers, 1780-1822.

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Sir William Herschel papers, 1780-1822.

Scientific papers of the German-born British astronomer William Herschel.

4 volumes (1 linear ft.)

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6383757

Houghton Library

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Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848

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Caroline Lucretia Herschel was the first woman to receive full recognition in the field of astronomy. She grew up in Hanover, the only girl among five surviving children of the military musician Isaak Herschel and his wife Anna Ilse Herschel. Against the wishes of her mother, who would have preferred her to be a seamstress, Caroline, like her brothers, received musical training and became a concert singer. Caroline HerschelWhen she was 22 she followed her brother Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ...

George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

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George III was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George's long life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American War of Independence. Furt...

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Maskelyne

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Edmond Rack.

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Dreyer, J. L. E.

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Herschel, William, 1738-1822

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William Herschel(b. November 15, 1738, Hannover, Germany–d. August 25, 1822, Slough, England) was a British astronomer and composer, and brother of fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel, with whom he worked. Herschel constructed his first large telescope in 1774, after which he spent nine years carrying out sky surveys to investigate double stars. Herschel published catalogues of nebulae in 1802 (2,500 objects) and in 1820 (5,000 objects). In the course of an observation on 13 March 1781, he ...

Sir Joseph Banks.

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Herschel, Sir William, 1738-1822,

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Bath Philosophical Society.

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Thomas Curtis.

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