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13 de mar. de 2024 · El trabajo de John Herschel se centró en la observación de satélites-descubrió siete lunas de Saturno y cuatro de Urano- y en perfeccionar los instrumentos ópticos desarrollados por su padre. Fue uno de los fundadores de la Royal Astronomic Society en 1820, una sociedad privada dedicada al estudio de la astronomía y las ciencias relacionadas con esta.
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1. Baronet (* 7. März 1792 in Slough; † 11. Mai 1871 in Hawkhurst, Kent) war ein britischer Astronom [1] und Sohn des Uranus -Entdeckers Wilhelm Herschel. Auf ihn gehen die ersten Doppelstern- und Nebelkataloge des Südsternhimmels zurück, die er während eines fünfjährigen Aufenthalts bei Kapstadt ...
On January 1, 1840, a strange ceremony took place in the garden of the Herschel house at Slough. On the lawn lay the 40-foot-long tube of the great reflector that William Herschel had first pointed at the heavens half a century earlier. The instrument had been out of use for over thirty years, and the enormous wooden framework from which the ...
John Herschel was the son of William Herschel, the astronomer who discovered Uranus. His mother Mary Pitt was the daughter of a wealthy merchant. She was 38 years old when she married William Herschel, her first husband and her only child having both died. When John Herschel was born in 1792 William was 55 years old and Mary was 42.
John Herschel. John Herschel, in full Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet, (born March 7, 1792, Slough, Buckinghamshire, Eng.—died May 11, 1871, Collingwood, Kent), English astronomer. He was the son of astronomer William Herschel. He studied at the University of Cambridge, where he met mathematicians Charles Babbage and George ...
John Herschel. Sir John Frederick William Herschel (n. 7 martie 1792, Slough, Anglia, Regatul Unit – d. 11 mai 1871, Kent, Anglia, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei) a fost matematician, astronom și chimist englez, fiul astronomului Sir William Herschel .
31 de mar. de 2018 · Lived 1792 – 1871. John Herschel was a polymath - a brilliant mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and inventor. He produced the first global survey of the night skies, discovered hundreds of nebulae and thousands of double stars, invented the actinometer to measure the heating power of radiation, invented hypo fixing of photographs, and invented the cyanotype,
