The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers
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Total Pages: 140
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The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers
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The Story Of The Herschels, A Family Of Astronomers. Sir William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Caroline Herschel. (lessons From Noble Lives)
Author: Anonymous
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Published: 2023-07-18
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ISBN-13: 9781021174147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers
Author: Unknown Unknown
Publisher: Litres
Published: 2020-10-30
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 504143106X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Georgian Star
Author: Michael D. Lemonick
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780393065749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In 1781, William Herschel won international fame for discovering Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. In documenting a new planet - something no one had done since the dawn of civilization - he expanded our perception that we are part of something much greater than the immediately visible solar system." "Herschel remains most famous for this discovery, but, as The Georgian Star makes vividly clear, he accomplished much more. After a successful career as a professional musician, he turned his attention to astronomy in his mid-thirties. With his sister Caroline as a partner, he pioneered techniques that are still used by astronomers today. The Herschels were the first to map the night sky, listing and categorizing every object they could see. To do so, they built a massive, forty-foot-tall telescope under the patronage of King George III. They were also the first to propose that the visible stars surrounding our little planet are only a fraction of those that make up a continually evolving universe. William's restless intelligence led further still, to the discovery of infrared radiation - invisible radiation that has a wavelength longer than microwaves but shorter than that of visible light. Caroline assembled an exhaustive catalog of nebulae, the beautiful, cloudy assemblages of dust and stellar light." "Erudite and accessible, The Georgian Star is a lively portrait of the pair who invented modern astronomy."--BOOK JACKET.
The Georgian Star: How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized Our Understanding of the Cosmos
Author: Michael Lemonick
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009-12-14
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0393072088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A bright, shiny gift to popular-science collections.”—Booklist Trained as a musician, amateur scientist William Herschel found international fame after discovering the planet Uranus in 1781. Though he is still best known for this finding, his partnership with his sister Caroline yielded other groundbreaking work that affects how we see the world today. The Herschels made comprehensive surveys of the night sky, carefully categorizing every visible object in the void. Caroline wrote an influential catalogue of nebulae, and William discovered infrared radiation. Veteran science writer Michael D. Lemonick guides readers through the depths of the solar system and into his subjects’ private lives: William developed bizarre theories about inhabitants of the sun; he procured an unheard-of salary for Caroline from King George III even as he hassled over the funding for an enormous, forty-foot telescope; and the siblings feuded over William’s marriage but eventually reconciled.
The Stargazer's Sister
Author: Carrie Brown
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2016-12-13
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0804172137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaroline, known as “Lina” to her family, has always lived in the shadow of her older brother William Herschel’s accomplishments. And yet when William invites Lina to join him in England to assist in his musical and astronomical pursuits—not to mention to run his bachelor household—she accepts, finding a new sense of purpose. William may be an obsessive genius, but Lina adores him, and aids him with the same fervency as a beloved wife. When William decides to marry, however, Lina’s world collapses. As she attempts to rebuild a future, we witness the dawning of an early feminist consciousness—a woman struggling to find her own place among the stars.
The Herschel Chronicle
Author: Constance A. Lubbock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-31
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1107650011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1933, this book was written with the aim of presenting the life stories of William and Caroline Herschel in the setting of their family circle and the broader historical context. The text is composed, as far as possible, from their own words, using extracts from William Herschel's brief autobiographical notes and from Caroline's very full journals, as well as from letters. A variety of illustrative figures and an appendix section are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Herschels, astronomy and music.
Caroline Herschel's Autobiographies
Author: Caroline Lucretia Herschel
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Construction of the Heavens
Author: Michael Hoskin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-01-19
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ISBN-13: 1139505548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe astronomical observations of William Herschel (1738–1822) made him question the accepted model of the clockwork universe. This volume explains the development of Herschel's thoughts on what he called 'the construction of the heavens' and reprints his principal papers on this subject. The preliminary chapters provide an introduction to Herschel, including his unusual path to astronomy, the discovery of Uranus and his work on the evolution of stellar clusters, which eventually led him to challenge the unchanging Newtonian universe. The second half of the text comprises eight of Herschel's key papers on what we today would call cosmology, representing his progress between 1783 and 1814, fully annotated with historical notes and modern astrophysical explanations. Ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the history of science and in astronomy, this volume explains Herschel's pivotal role in the transformation from the clockwork universe to the 'biological' universe of modern astronomy.
