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English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792–1871)
Also known as: John Herschel, J. F. W. Herschel, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, John F. W. Herschel, John Frederick Herschel, Sir John Frederick William Herschel
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- JOHN HERSCHEL'S CAPE VOYAGE: PRIVATE SCIENCE, PUBLIC IMAGINATION AND THE AMBITIONS OF EMPIRE
- A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy (1831)
- Observations on the apparent distances and positions of 389 double and triple stars (1825)
- Letters and papers of Sir John Herschel (1990)
- On the mechanical effects produced when a conducting liquid is electrified in contact with mercury (1825)