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The William Herschel Double Star Catalogs Restored; Full text of Herschel by Hector Macpherson. Full text of The Story of the Herschels (1886) from Project Gutenberg; Portraits of William Herschel Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine at the National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom) Herschel Museum of Astronomy located in his Bath home
William Herschel (1738–1822), astronomer and composer, discoverer of Uranus; Caroline Herschel (1750–1848), astronomer and singer, sister of Sir William Herschel; John Herschel (1792–1871), mathematician and astronomer, son of Sir William Herschel; Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836–1907), astronomer, grandson of Sir William Herschel
William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, also known as the Great Forty-Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England. It used a 48-inch (120 cm) diameter primary mirror with a 40-foot-long (12 m) focal length (hence its name "Forty-Foot" ).
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Herschel was born in Claremont, a suburb of Cape Town in the British Cape Colony of South Africa, the third son and the sixth child (of twelve) of Sir John Herschel and his wife Margaret Brodie (née Stewart). His family had travelled to the Cape in late 1833, so that his father could work on an astronomical survey of the southern skies. [2]
The main house was on Windsor Road. There was also a small cottage on the land. Herschel moved there on 3 April 1786. John Herschel was born in the house, and William died there on 25 August 1822. [3] John Herschel and his family moved out of the house to Hawkhurst in 1840. [4] However, the house continued to be owned by the Herschel family ...
Herschel held the post of resident lecturer in natural sciences and mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge. [1] She was the child of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, and the grandchild of William Herschel. She wrote a family history of the famous scientific dynasty by compiling family sources, 'The Herschel Chronicle'. [2]
The Herschel Baronetcy, of Slough in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 July 1838 for John Herschel , son of the famous astronomer Sir William Herschel , and a well-known astronomer in his own right. [ 1 ]