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22 hours ago · The Royal Society has digitsied and made available over 10,000 letters of the astronomer and photographic pioneer Sir John Frederick William Herschel FRS (1792-1871) for the first time on the Royal Society’s Science in the Making archives portal. This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John ...
1 day ago · 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 ...
5 days ago · 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.
2 days ago · Historical development. Early photographic science leading to the photogram (prior to fixing the image) There were countless early experimental attempts to find suitable photosensitive materials to produce what were originally called “photogenic drawings”. These attempts pre-dated the use of cameras and were concerned with coating commonly ...
May 16, 2024 · Le portrait de Herschel s’avère être le plus petit dénominateur commun des fonds publics et privés se voulant de « référence ». À l’égal du dollar ou de l’or dans le domaine des échanges économiques, la valeur du Herschel fonde le cours du vintage photographique. IMPOSER UN NOM, PRESCRIRE UNE ŒUVRE.
May 29, 2024 · On 26 December 1785 William Herschel discovered the open clusters NGC 1758 (VII 21) and NGC 1750 (VIII 43) using his 18.7-inch speculum reflector at Slough, UK.
May 23, 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.
