Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow.
12
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Literary responses | Caroline Herschel | As early as May 1827 her nephew John
read her autobiographical account of her discovery years, and responded that she underestimated her own part in her joint enterprise with William. Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow. 12 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Herschel | 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. Brock, Claire. The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s astronomical ambition. Thriplow. 200-2 |
Instructor | Anna Atkins | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Shirreff | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Atkins | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Herschel | 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... |
No timeline events available.
No bibliographical results available.