John Frederick William Herschel
“Tongues in trees — books in the running brooks — Sermons in stones — and good in every thing.”
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John Frederick William Herschel
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical work.
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science · English polymath (1792–1871) · astronomer · photographer · mathematician · chemist · physicist · writer · also John Frederick William Herschel, John Herschel, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, John Frederick Herschel, Sir John Herschel, John F. W. Herschel
Born 7 March 1792 · Died 11 May 1871 · Q14278
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Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, can only be gained by one means,—sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher departments of science as can entitle him to form an independent opinion on any subject of discussion within their range.
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2026· 2 entries
John Frederick William Herschel
“Admission to its sanctuary, and to the privileges and feelings of a votary, can only be gained by one means,—sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever make such advances in this or any other of the higher departments of science as can entitle him to form an independent opinion on any subject of discussion within their range.”
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2025· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
MutualArt.com: John Frederick William Herschel
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1871· 3 entries
John Frederick William Herschel
Died 1871-05-11.
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John Frederick William Herschel
“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”
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John Frederick William Herschel
“God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives”
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1864· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
As the General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters, a compilation of his own work and that of his father's, expanding on the senior Herschel's Catalogue of Nebulae
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1852· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
Proposed the names still used today for the four then-known satellites of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon
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1850· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
Career landmark: Master of the Mint (1850–1855).
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1847· 2 entries
John Frederick William Herschel
Won Copley Medal (1847).
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John Frederick William Herschel
Career landmark: President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1847–1849).
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1845· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
Career landmark: President of the British Science Association (1845–1846).
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1842· 2 entries
John Frederick William Herschel
And now in the grounds of The Grove Primary School, marks the site where his 20-ft reflector once stood
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John Frederick William Herschel
Career landmark: Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen (1842–1843).
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1840· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
Herschel made the first infrared image (thermogram) via an evaporographic method of focusing solar rays onto a suspension of carbon particles in alcohol
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1839· 2 entries
John Frederick William Herschel
Career landmark: President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1839–1841).
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Made a photograph on glass, which still exists, and experimented with some colour reproduction, noting that rays of different parts of the spectrum tended to impart their own colour to a photographic paper
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1838· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
Was created a baronet, of Slough in the County of Buckingham, and published Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope in 1847
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1836· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
“a complete revolution in [its] subject, by altering entirely the point of view in which it must thenceforward be contemplated”
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1835· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
The New York Sun newspaper wrote a series of satiric articles that came to be known as the Great Moon Hoax, with statements falsely attributed to Herschel about his supposed discoveries of animals living on the Moon, inc
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1833· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
Won Royal Medal (1833).
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1832· 2 entries
John Frederick William Herschel
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1832).
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John Frederick William Herschel
And in 1836, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1831· 2 entries
John Frederick William Herschel
As part of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet cyclopædia, set out methods of scientific investigation with an orderly relationship between observation and theorising
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John Frederick William Herschel
And he served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society three times between 1827-1829, 1839-1841 and 1847-1849
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1828· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
And the Encyclopædia Metropolitana in 1845
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1827· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
Career landmark: President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1827–1829).
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1826· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1826).
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1825· 2 entries
John Frederick William Herschel
Awarded Lalande Prize (1825).
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John Frederick William Herschel
To measure the direct heating power of the Sun's rays, and his work with the instrument is of great importance in the early history of photochemistry
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1823· 2 entries
John Frederick William Herschel
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1823).
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John Frederick William Herschel
Herschel published his findings on the optical spectra of metal salts
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1821· 2 entries
John Frederick William Herschel
Won Copley Medal (1821).
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John Frederick William Herschel
The Royal Society bestowed upon him the Copley Medal for his mathematical contributions to their Transactions
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1819· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
And informed Talbot and Daguerre of his discovery that this "hyposulphite of soda" ("hypo") could be used as a photographic fixer, to "fix" pictures and make them permanent, after experimentally applying it thus in early
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1816· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
Building a reflecting telescope with a mirror 18 inches (460 mm) in diameter, and with a 20-foot (6
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1813· 3 entries
John Frederick William Herschel
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1813).
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John Frederick William Herschel
Studied at St John's College (1809–1813).
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John Frederick William Herschel
Studied at Lincoln's Inn (1813–1813).
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1801· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
Studied at Eton College (1800–1801).
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1792· 1 entry
John Frederick William Herschel
Born 1792-03-07.
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