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Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (Paperback)
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Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy
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Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel (1876) contains the
letters and diaries of the celebrated astronomer Caroline Herschel
(1750-1848), edited by her niece, Mary Herschel. Caroline was born
in Hanover to a musician father and an illiterate mother who did
not want her daughter to be educated. However Caroline's brother
William, an organist employed in Bath, persuaded their mother to
allow Caroline to join him there. She left for England in 1772 to
live with William, to whom she remained devoted all of her life. In
Bath, William turned towards telescope-making and astronomy, to
such effect that in 1781 he discovered the planet Uranus. He was
appointed 'the King's astronomer' in 1782, and Caroline, trained by
William, continued to work at his side as a scientist in her own
right. Between them, they discovered eight comets and raised the
number of recorded nebulae from a hundred to 2500.
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