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Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel.

Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel.

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 9780511709012
著者・編者Herschel, Caroline / Herschel, Mary Cornwallis (ed.),
シリーズ (Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy)
出版社 (Cambridge University Press, UK)
出版年月2010
ページ数376 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A00-53171>

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Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (1876) contains the letters and diaries of the celebrated astronomer Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), edited by her niece, Mary Herschel. Caroline was born in Hanover to a musician father and an illiterate mother who did not want her daughter to be educated. However Caroline's brother William, an organist employed in Bath, persuaded their mother to allow Caroline to join him there. She left for England in 1772 to live with William, to whom she remained devoted all of her life. In Bath, William turned towards telescope-making and astronomy, to such effect that in 1781 he discovered the planet Uranus. He was appointed 'the King's astronomer' in 1782, and Caroline, trained by William, continued to work at his side as a scientist in her own right. Between them, they discovered eight comets and raised the number of recorded nebulae from a hundred to 2500.