FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works, by Edward Singleton Holden This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works Author: Edward Singleton Holden Release Date: June 3, 2009 [EBook #29031] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL *** Produced by Bryan Ness, Eric Hutton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL HIS LIFE AND WORKS [Illustration: Sir William Herschel] SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL HIS LIFE AND WORKS BY EDWARD S. HOLDEN UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY, WASHINGTON [Illustration: Coelis Exploratis] NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 743 AND 745 BROADWAY 1881 COPYRIGHT, 1880, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. PRESS OF J. J. LITTLE & CO., NOS. 10 TO 20 ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK. Please see the end of the text for TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES PREFACE. In the following account of the life and works of Sir WILLIAM HERSCHEL, I have been obliged to depend strictly upon data already in print--the _Memoir_ of his sister, his own scientific writings and the memoirs and diaries of his cotemporaries. The review of his published works will, I trust, be of use. It is based upon a careful study of all his papers in the _Philosophical Transactions_ and elsewhere. A life of HERSCHEL which shall be satisfactory in every particular can only be written after a full examination of the materials which are preserved at the family seat in England; but as two generations have passed since his death, and as no biography yet exists which approaches to completeness, no apology seems to me to be needed for a conscientious attempt to make the best use of the scanty material which we do possess. This study will, I trust, serve to exhibit so much of his life as belongs to the whole public. His private life belongs to his family, until the time is come to let the world know more of the greatest of practical astronomers and of the inner life of one of its mos
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25  
26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

HERSCHEL

 

WILLIAM

 

William

 

Herschel

 

SCRIBNER

 

material

 

Illustration

 

family

 
public
 
CHARLES

Holden

 
Singleton
 

Edward

 

Project

 

Gutenberg

 
belongs
 

scientific

 
careful
 

satisfactory

 

writings


review

 
cotemporaries
 

published

 
memoirs
 

depend

 

diaries

 
sister
 

papers

 

strictly

 

Transactions


Philosophical
 

Memoir

 
private
 

exhibit

 

scanty

 

possess

 

astronomers

 

practical

 

greatest

 

attempt


preserved

 

England

 
materials
 
written
 

examination

 

generations

 

passed

 

apology

 

needed

 

conscientious