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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.
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 · While these eldest daughters of Johnand Margaret Herschel were educated to a high standard, with aspirations that they might use this to select the perfect intellectual marriage companion, the reality of the marriage market showed this a more difficult undertaking that they had originally imagined.
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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.
Notable items include Isabella Herschel's biographical memoranda and extracts from diaries and letters of her father; extensive correspondence between Lady Margaret Herschel and other Herschel family members and friends; and the housekeeping book of John's mother, Mary Pitt Herschel.
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.
12 de may. de 2021 · This month is the 150th anniversary of the death of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, who not only continued his father’s astronomical work but also made a name for himself in mathematics, chemistry, photography, geology and meteorology.
