Description
- Abstract:
- A photograph of the cottage in which the famous astronomer Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) lived after her brother, William Herschel, married in 1788. The Herschels were both excellent astronomers. William discovered Uranus, as well as several of its moons; Caroline, meanwhile, discover eight comets, and remains the only woman to have received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1828).
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Citation
"Caroline Herschel, Obs. cottage, Slough, Eng."
(1955).
Archives of the Ladd Observatory.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:38919/
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Archives of the Ladd Observatory
Materials from the archives of Ladd Observatory, including eclipse expedition scrapbooks, slides, and associated materials from Charles H. Smiley....