The Herschels and Modern Astronomy

Name: The Herschels and Modern Astronomy
Author: Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

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Project Gutenberg

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Fay Dunn, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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2021-02-27

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Public domain in the USA.

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Astronomy -- History Herschel, William, 1738-1822 Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871 Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848

About the author

Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

1842–1907

A gifted Irish writer on astronomy, she made complex discoveries understandable for a wide audience and became one of the best-known science popularizers of her time. Her books helped readers follow the fast-moving world of nineteenth-century astronomy without needing to be specialists.

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