Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871.
John F. W. Herschel papers, 1810-1917.
Includes John Herschel's notes, autograph compositions, and correspondence with his father and others, including the 1860 correspondence with Robert Fitzroy. Materials focus especially on double stars and include 2 boxes of "forms of registry of the micrometic measures of double stars." Also includes transcripts of his materials (1917), compositions of others, and correspondence of William Herschel with others.
John Herschel was a British astronomer and successor to his father, Sir William Herschel, in the field of stellar and nebular observation and discovery.
Fitzroy, Robert, 1805-1865.
Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871.
Herschel, William, 1738-1822
Astronomy -- History -- 19th century.
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