Author:John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel
(1792–1871)

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English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor. Son of William Herschel.

Works

A Collection of Examples of the Applications of the Calculus of Finite Differences, 1820 (external scan)
On the Aberration of Compound Lenses and Object-Glasses (1821)
On the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831) (external scan)
Treatise on astronomy, 1833 (external scan)
The ninth Bridgewater treatise; a fragment With Charles Babbage,1791-1871; 1837 (external scan)
Results of astronomical observations made during the years 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, at the Cape of Good Hope; 1847 (external scan)
A brief notice of the life, researches, and discoveries of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 1847 (external scan)
Outlines of Astronomy (1849) (external scan)
A manual of scientific enquiry; 1851 (external scan)
Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, 1857 (external scan)
General Catalogue of 10,300 Multiple and Double Stars (published posthumously)
Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects 1866, (external scan)
General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters, 1864 (external scan)

Journal articles

Auszug aus einem Briefe des Herrn J. F. W. Herschel an den Herausgeber in Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 48
Obituary of Francis Baily, Royal Astronomical Society (PDF)

Works about Herschel

"Herschel, Sir John Frederick William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Herschel, John Frederick William," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Herschel, Sir John Frederick William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
The Herschels and modern astronomy by Agnes Mary Clerke, 1842-1907 (1895) (external scan)
Great astronomers by Robert Stawell Ball, 1840-1913 (1895) (external scan)
Lectures on ten British physicists of the nineteenth century by Alexander Macfarlane, 1851-1913 (1916) {{ext scan link|1=https://archive.org/details/lecturestenbritish00macfrich external link]

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