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Margaret, Lady Herschel ( née Brodie Stewart; 1810–1884) was a British botanical artist and hostess. While she was in Cape Colony, she and her husband made over a hundred botanical paintings of wild flowers, which they brought back to Europe for study. Her husband was one of the leading scientists of Victorian Britain . Life.
22 de jul. de 2021 · Periodista. Actualizado a 21 de julio de 2021 · 14:39 · Lectura: 8 min. De Alemania, a Inglaterra; de la música, a la astronomía; del anonimato, a la fama. Las de William y Caroline Herschel fueron vidas de transición y contrastes en una época de extraordinaria ebullición intelectual.
1 de ene. de 2022 · For John Herschel’swife, Margaret Brodie Stewart (later Herschel), the purpose of her academic education seems to have been primarily to help her be a good, intellectually thorough, evangelical, proselytising Christian. Margaret was the youngest daughter of an evangelical minister of the Scottish church called Alexander Stewart.
- Emily Winterburn
Arranged alphabetically by name, this series includes manuscripts, correspondence, personal records and other documents for Alexander Stewart Herschel, Isabella Herschel, John Herschel (son of Sir John), Julia Mary Herschel, Lady Margaret Herschel, Margaret Louisa Herschel, Mary Pitt Herschel, Sir William James Herschel, and other or ...
Her nephew's wife, Margaret Brodie Herschel (née Stewart) was intensely interested in her famous astronomer aunt and quizzed her about her life to such an extent that Caroline declared Margaret to have been the impetus behind her decision to write her autobiography.
- Emily Winterburn
- 2015
7 de ene. de 2017 · LibriVox recording of Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel by Margaret Herschel. Read in English by Kevin Green. For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scene during the late 18th and early 19th century.
12 de may. de 2021 · On 13 November 1833, Herschel and his wife Margaret (née Brodie Stewart (1810–1884)) travelled on Mount Stewart Elphinstone to Cape Town to start a new programme of observing the southern skies. After a two-month journey at sea, Herschel installed the 20-ft reflector at Feldhausen, about five miles from the Royal Observatory at ...
