Sir John Frederick William Herschel

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.

She had begun working on this, at John 's behest, about a year after her return to Hanover. In August 1823 it was still at the planning stage. A year later she was hard at work.

AA also continued into her forties her self-education in the new subject of photography. In 1841 she was experimenting with camera work as developed by William Henry Fox Talbot in the form of photograms produced...

ES 's circle of friends included Sir William Grove (inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville , lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley , astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy , Sir John Herschel

AA was a close friend of Sir John Herschel (another photographic pioneer) and his daughters. The idea of a female scientist was not strange to this family, since Sir John was the nephew of the...

In London the Somervilles enjoyed participating in a rich scientific community: Mary's time there was much happier than during her first marriage. She attended many lectures at the Royal Institution , and took lessons in...

Her nephew John, born in 1792, grew up to become Sir John Herschel , an astronomer perhaps as famous as his father (let alone his aunt). She helped him by recording the first sweeps that...