Part I - Herschel’s exploration of the cosmos
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
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- The Construction of the HeavensWilliam Herschel's Cosmology, pp. 5 - 84Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
References
1 For details of the life of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, see Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel (Princeton, 2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar ,
2 For biographies of Isaac and of each of his children, see The Herschels of Hanover (Cambridge, 2007).Google Scholar ,
3 Private and Personal Acts 1793, c. 38.
5 A Compleat System of Opticks (2 vols, Cambridge, 1738).Google Scholar ,
6 Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles (1st edn, London, 1756).Google Scholar Herschel bought a copy of one of the many later editions. ,
7 The classic article on Herschel’s telescopes is ‘On the power of penetrating into space’: The telescopes of William Herschel”, JHA, 7 (1976), 75–108.Google Scholar See also , “A compendium of all known William Herschel telescopes”, Journal of the Antique Telescope Society, no. 14 (1998), 4–15.Google Scholar , “
8 Michael Hoskin, “Vocations in conflict: William Herschel in Bath, 1766–1782”, History of Science, 41 (2003), 315–333.
9 RAS W.2/1.1, f. 1.
10 William Herschel, Bath, and the Philosophical Society”, in (ed.), Uranus and the Outer Planets (Cambridge, 1982), 23–34.Google Scholar , “
11 Caroline Herschel’s Autobiographies (ref. 4), 60, 131.Google Scholar
12 Banks to Herschel, 15 March 1782, RAS W.1/13.B.4.
13 J. A. Bennett, “Herschel’s scientific apprenticeship and the discovery of Uranus”, in Hunt (ed.), Uranus and the Outer Planets (ref. 10), 35–53.