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7 de jun. de 2024 · Over 10,000 letters of the astronomer and photographic pioneer Sir John Frederick William Herschel FRS (1792-1871) have been digitised for the first time on the Royal Society’s Science in the Making archives portal.
27 de may. de 2024 · La cianotipia fue inventada por Sir John Herschel en 1842. Herschel, hijo del famoso astrónomo William Herschel, fue un polímata que realizó importantes contribuciones en campos como la astronomía, la química y la matemática.
7 de jun. de 2024 · Louisiane Ferlier launches the letters of Sir John Herschel on the Royal Society's Science in the Making platform. I’m delighted to launch today the letters of Sir John Herschel on our Science in the Making platform. As Eloise Barber discussed earlier this week, this project has been a fascinating venture into the interdisciplinary world of ...
7 de jun. de 2024 · Astronomy - Herschel, Milky Way, Stars: Although Herschel’s discovery of Uranus made his reputation, it was far from being his most important contribution. During the 18th century, astronomers had measured the proper motions of a reasonably large number of stars.
3 de jun. de 2024 · Sir John Herschel’s careful management of his correspondence, and his central position in nineteenth-century science, make the Royal Society’s Herschel letters an invaluable archival resource, as Eloise Barber discovers during a major new digitisation project.
23 de may. de 2024 · Pence, Charles H. (2024) John Herschel’s Methodology in the Scientific Community. [Preprint] Abstract. The Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, which Herschel published in Dionysius Lardner’s Cabinet Cyclopaedia series in 1830, can be a difficult book to interpret.
4 de jun. de 2024 · -William Herschel (1738 - 1822): Fue un astrónomo alemán nacionalizado británico que descubrió el planeta Urano y sus dos lunas más grandes, Titania y Oberón. Herschel también descubrió dos lunas de Saturno, Mimas y Encélado, y catalogó más de 800 estrellas dobles y múltiples.
