John Herschel
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871)[1] was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor.[1] He was the son of astronomer Sir William Herschel and the father of 12 children.[1]
John Herschel Media
A Calotype of a model of the lunar crater Copernicus, 1842
Portrait of a young Herschel by Alfred Edward Chalon, c. 1829
Disa cornuta (L.) Sw. by Margaret & John Herschel
Drawing of John Herschel, published in 1846
Herschel's first glass-plate photograph, dated 9 September 1839, showing the mount of his father's 40-foot telescope[2]
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH (March 7, 1792–May 11, 1871) was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor
The adjoining tombs of John Herschel and Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey.
Description of a machine for resolving by inspection certain important forms of transcendental equations, 1832
Arms of the Herschel baronets
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Herschel | Sir | John Frederick William | 1792-1871 | astronomer (biography), NAHSTE project, University of Edinburgh, NAHSTE-JHerschel Archived 2007-05-10 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Evans 1970, p. 84.
Other websites
- [1][dead link]
- The Herschel Chronicle
- Photographic Process and Early Photograms
- Herschel Museum of Astronomy
- Wikisource copy of a notice from 1823 concerning the star catalogue, published in Astronomische Nachrichten