The Herschels in this biography are Sir William Herschel (1738
1822), his sister Caroline (1750 1848) and Sir John Herschel (1792
1871), William's son. Sir William was an astronomer and
telescope-maker who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781. He was
appointed 'the King's astronomer' to George III in 1782, and under
his patronage built the then largest telescope in the world.
Caroline Herschel worked as her brother's assistant for much of his
career but was also an accomplished astronomer in her own right,
discovering eight comets and producing a catalogue of nebulae. Her
nephew Sir John Herschel was also a distinguished astronomer who
made many observations of stars in the southern hemisphere. This
book by the astronomer and writer Agnes Clerke (1842 1907),
published in 1895, provides both an analysis of their work and an
assessment of its contribution to later astronomical research.
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