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John Herschel. John Frederick William Herschel ( Slough, 7 de março de 1792 — Hawkhurst, 11 de maio de 1871 [ 2]) foi um Inglês polímata, [ 2] matemático, astrônomo, químico, inventor, fotógrafo experimental que inventou o blueprint, e fez trabalhos botânicos. [ 3][ 4] Herschel originou o uso do sistema julianos na astronomia.
9 de mai. de 2024 · This volume shows readers what it meant to be John Herschel (1792-1871), one of England's most prominent polymaths. Drawing on his published oeuvre and recent scholarship, as well as an immense amount of surviving archival material and correspondence, these essays present the first ever comprehensive account of Herschel's life, work, and legacy.
28 de dez. de 2018 · Operas, plays, auctions, and all the usual amusements of the town, gave Miss Herschel a glimpse of the gay world; but the expense of dress and chairmen troubled her spirits too much to allow of her finding pleasure in these dissipations; and although Mrs. Colebrook is allowed to be both "learned and clever," her society does not appear to have contributed much more to her happiness than that ...
John Herschel est né à Slough (en ce temps dans le Buckinghamshire et actuellement dans le Berkshire ). En 1809, il entra à l'université de St John's College (Cambridge) et en 1812 proposa son premier article de mathématiques à la Royal Society . Il n'eut jamais de poste académique mais consacra sa vie à la recherche privée.
William Herschel's only son, John Frederick William Herschel, had followed in the footsteps of his father and aunt and had also become a great astronomer—his importance is attested by the fact that, after his death in 1871, he was given a state funeral in Westminster Abbey and laid to rest next to the graves of Charles Darwin and Sir Isaac Newton.
As the Herschel Museum occupies a fully restored 18th century townhouse, space is limited. The decision was thus made to commission a purpose-built exhibition gallery that would combine the best in modern design with a real sympathy for the existing historic building. Designed by Bath architects Hetreed Ross, the award-winning Caroline Lucretia ...
John Herschel was fourteen years old when Jane Taylor’s poem “The Star” (better known today by its eponymous first line, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”) first saw print in a volume of poetry called Rhymes for the Nursery .¹ At the time it was written, posing the statement “How I wonder what you are!” to the stars was quite ...
