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,
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
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
William Herschel
…the first President of the Royal Astronomical Society when it was founded in 1820. He died in August 1822, and his work was continued by his only son, John Herschel. Herschel was born in the Electorate of Hanover in Germany, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, one of ten children of Isaak Herschel and his wife…
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