Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow.
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Textual Features | Mary Somerville | 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... |
Textual Production | Augusta Ada Byron | 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... |
Textual Production | Caroline Herschel | CH
announced in a letter from Hanover to her nephew John
in England the completion of her Catalogue of . . . Star-Clusters and Nebulae. Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow. 202-3 |
Textual Production | Caroline Herschel | 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... |
Textual Production | 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... |
Textual Production | Anna Atkins | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Agnes Mary Clerke | 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 |
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