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Hace 23 horas · John Herschel was the son of William Herschel – the discoverer of Uranus – and nephew of comet-watcher Caroline Herschel. One of the most significant figures of Victorian science, he was at the centre of a global network of correspondence, exchanging letters on a variety of subjects with the foremost practitioners in each field, acting as a science diplomat and administrator.
Hace 1 día · John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962.
Hace 4 días · 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.
Hace 23 horas · John Herschel . The millions of contact lens wearers worldwide may be somewhat surprised to learn that the history of this mode of optical correction has its origins in antiquity, involving a process that has been one of evolution, not single invention, at times attracting the attention of some of the finest thinkers, scientists and inventors of their times.
21 de may. de 2024 · John Glenn (born July 18, 1921, Cambridge, Ohio, U.S.—died December 8, 2016, Columbus, Ohio) was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth, completing three orbits in 1962. (Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, had made a single orbit of Earth in 1961.) Glenn joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1942.
10 de may. de 2024 · Join us for a packed day of talks exploring the life and work of Victorian polymath, Sir John Herschel. Sir John Herschel (1792-1871), son of the astronomer William Herschel and nephew to Caroline Herschel, was the most influential natural philosopher of the Victorian period.
