- Title Information
- Title
- Caroline Herschel, Obs. cottage, Slough, Eng.
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Smiley, Charles H. (Charles Hugh)
- Name Part:
Date
- 1903-1977
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- photographer
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Genre (aat)
- slides (photographs)
- Origin Information
- Date Created
- 1955-07-21
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 slide; 2 x 2 in.
- 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).
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- Archives of the Ladd Observatory
- Identifier:
COLID
- 31
- Identifier:
URI
- http://pike.services.brown.edu/ladd
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1182537574379125
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="https://rightsstatements.org/page/CNE/1.0/")
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.