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Hace 3 días · También se examina la vida de Caroline Herschel, la astrónoma alemana que descubrió varios cometas y nebulosas, pero que quedó eclipsada por su hermano. Su reconocimiento solo llegó después de su muerte en 1848.
Hace 3 días · Mencionó a Caroline Herschel, la primera mujer astrónoma, descubridora de cometas y autora de catálogos astronómicos; y Ada Lovelace, matemática que se convirtió en programadora y hoy se considera precursora de la computación.
Hace 23 horas · Sir John Herschel contributed to the fields of mathematics, physics, photography and chemistry, the philosophy of science, and most notably astronomy. His father William Herschel (1738-1822) and his aunt Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) were astronomers themselves, with William discovering the seventh planet Uranus. It’s no surprise, then, that Sir John followed in their footsteps, co-founding ...
Hace 1 día · Caroline Herschel is often credited as the first woman to discover a comet; however, Maria Kirch discovered a comet in the early 1700s, but is often overlooked because at the time, the discovery was attributed to her husband, Gottfried Kirch.
Hace 3 días · Let’s start with how science proceeds through what we see with our eyes. Case study – ‘discovering’ a planet William and Caroline Herschel (brother and sister), spent many hours over many years observing the night sky, first on standard telescopes and later on telescopes they designed and built themselves.
Hace 1 día · Già alla fine del Settecento l’astronomo inglese William Herschel, insieme con la sorella Caroline, si era lanciato nell’impresa titanica di compilare un catalogo con tutte le stelle visibili della Via Lattea, che al tempo si credeva coincidesse con l’intero universo.
Hace 3 días · Organic life—life as we now know it—is based on carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Evolution works primarily with combinations of those elements. A different kind of life, and along with it a different kind of evolutionary development, could be based on silicon. Silicon life need not worry about global warming, or sustainable agriculture, or ...
