Sir John Frederick William Herschel

In The Herschels and Modern Astronomy she focuses on what she presents as the devoted and almost heroic work of William Herschel and his son Sir John . In relating the achievements of Caroline Herschel

The same year that she began, for her nephew's wife, writing about herself, she also embarked another memoir, entitled History of the Herschels, which remained unfinished. In both these memoirs the pages on the...

It appeared before Fox Talbot 's The Pencil of Nature, 1844-6, which does not therefore, technically, deserve being called, as it sometimes is, the first photobook. But his work, unlike Atkins's, was commercially...

In 1845 AAB collaborated with John Crosse on an article for the Westminster Review about Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers . (Before Chambers's authorship was known, there was speculation that...

CH announced in a letter from Hanover to her nephew John in England the completion of her Catalogue of . . . Star-Clusters and Nebulae.

During her last years in HanoverCH wrote many letters that survive and many writings in personal biography, autobiography and family history. Her own early Day-Books and Sweep-Books were pressed into service for these later...

MS dedicated the text to her longtime friend John Herschel . In thirty-three chapters, the book covers the concepts foundational to a study of physical geography: the earth and the solar system; the formation of...

In the beginning CH 's reputation was usually judged more as that of a woman and a sister than as that of a scientist. Frances Burney 's admiration and delight was directed at her as...

Astronomer Sir John Herschel reviewed Mechanism of the Heavens, by MS , in the Quarterly Review.

After conducting a series of trials which involved focussing sunlight on a steel needle, MS concluded (incorrectly) that the violet rays of the solar spectrum appeared to produce a magnetising effect. The paper was timely...

MS was a considerable time employed in writing this book, and sent it to Brougham for appraisal with some anxiety. Brougham deemed it too advanced to be accessible to his intended public readership, and...

After conducting a set of experiments on the effect of sunlight on vegetable juices, MS sent a report of her method and results to John Herschel , who presented her findings to the Royal Society .

She started with Henry Colburn . After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co. .

Astronomical observation being impossible in the city, CH worked at her papers from the past, this time, at her nephew John 's request, compiling her catalogue of nebulae. When her nephew set out for the...

The Athenæum declared MS 's On the Connexion of the Physical Scienceswith the exception of Sir John Herschel 's treatises, the most valuable and most pleasing work of science that has been published within the century.