John Herschel
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Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botan
John Herschel, 1835 mezzotint by W. Ward, after Henry William Pickersgill
Portrait of a young Herschel by Alfred Edward Chalon
Disa cornuta (L.) Sw. by Margaret & John Herschel
An illustration to Jules Verne's novel Hector Servadac from 1877 shows Herschel observing Halley's Comet in 1835 in Cape Town. Engraving by Charles Laplante after Paul Philippoteaux
William Herschel
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Frederick William Herschel was a German–British astronomer and composer. He frequently collaborated with his younger sister and fellow astronomer Caroline Herschel. Born in the Electorate of Hanover,
John Herschel
…the use of the Julian day system in astronomy. He named seven moons of Saturn and four moons of Uranus – the seventh planet, discovered by his father Sir William Herschel. He made many contributions to the science of photography, and investigated colour blindness and the chemical power of ultraviolet rays. His Preliminary…
Portrait of William Herschel (1785)
Original manuscript of Symphony No. 15 in E-flat major (1762)
Plaque at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy, which was the family home at 19 New King Street, Bath
Replica in the William Herschel Museum of a telescope similar to that with which Herschel discovered Uranus