Author:John Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel (1792–1871)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. An English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor. Son of William Herschel.

John Frederick William Herschel

Works

• On the Aberration of Compound Lenses and Object-Glasses (1821)
• On the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831)
• Outlines of Astronomy (1849)
• General Catalogue of 10,300 Multiple and Double Stars (published posthumously)
• Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects
• General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters
• Manual of Scientific Inquiry (ed.), (1849)
• Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects (1867)

Journal articles

• Auszug aus einem Briefe des Herrn J. F. W. Herschel an den Herausgeber in Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 48
• Obituary of Francis Baily, Royal Astronomical Society (PDF)

Works about Herschel

• “Herschel, Sir John Frederick William” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.

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