Herschels

This more popular account is only a limited success: The science portions are refreshingly clear, but the author does not fully animate the Herschels' colorful personalities.

A Far-Seeing Family James Kennedy 2011

Yet one cannot help comparing its depiction of the Herschels to that in Richard Holmes's recent book about Romantic-era science, "The Age of Wonder."

A Far-Seeing Family James Kennedy 2011

The sheer size and unwieldiness of William's homemade instruments made the Herschels' style of astronomy a danger ous business.

A Far-Seeing Family James Kennedy 2011

Mr. Holmes accomplishes in a few chapters what "Discoverers" only fitfully manages through an entire book: evoking the visceral thrills of early astronomy and re-creating the Herschels' eccentricities, charms and emotional lives.

A Far-Seeing Family James Kennedy 2011

Mr. Hoskin, a fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge, has written scholarly books about the Herschels.

A Far-Seeing Family James Kennedy 2011

The Herschels and Modern Astronomy (first published 1895)

Portraits of Women Scientists From the Smithsonian Peggy 2008

The Herschels and Modern Astronomy (first published 1895)

Archive 2008-10-01 Peggy 2008

She moved freely in Victorian scientific circles and was a friend of the Herschels, Faraday, Charles Babbage FRS, Jane Marcet and Ada Byron.

The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010

She first visited the Herschels' telescopes at Slough in 1816.

The Royal Society's lost women scientists Richard Holmes 2010

In 1784, Messier catalogued 103 nebulæ, and the Herschels -- father and son -- in their survey of the stellar regions, discovered 4,000 of those objects.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard