The Age of Wonder
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science is a 2008 popular biography book about the history of science written by Richard Holmes. In it, the author de
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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
The Age of Wonder
…his narrative with voyages of discovery. It opens in 1769, with Joseph Banks traveling to Tahiti on HMS Endeavour. In the last chapter, he describes John Herschel's establishment of an observatory in Cape Town to catalogue the stars of the southern hemisphere in 1833. In 1836, Herschel was visited by a young…
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