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THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES.
Edited by SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.
THE HERSCHELS
AND
MODERN ASTRONOMY
The Century Science Series.
EDITED BY
SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., F.R.S., M.P.
John Dalton and the Rise of Modern Chemistry.
By Sir Henry E. Roscoe, F.R.S.
Major Rennell, F.R.S., and the Rise of English Geography.
By Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S., President of the Royal Geographical Society.
The Herschels and Modern Astronomy.
By Miss Agnes M. Clerke, Author of “A Popular History of Astronomy during the 19th Century,” &c.
In Preparation.
Justus von Liebig: his Life and Work.
By W. A. Shenstone, Science Master in Clifton College.
Michael Faraday: his Life and Work.
By Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S.
Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics.
By R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Charles Lyell: his Life and Work.
By Rev. Professor T. G. Bonney, F.R.S.
Humphry Davy.
By T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., Principal Chemist of the Government Laboratories.
Pasteur: his Life and Work.
By Armand Ruffer, Director of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine.
Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species.
By Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford.
Hermann von Helmholtz.
By A. W. Rücker, F.R.S., Professor of Physics in the Royal College of Science, London.
CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited, London; Paris & Melbourne.
SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL.
Ætat. 50.
(From Abbott’s painting in the National Portrait Gallery.)
THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES.
The Herschels
AND
MODERN ASTRONOMY
BY
AGNES M. CLERKE
AUTHOR OF
“A POPULAR HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY DURING THE 19TH CENTURY,”
“THE SYSTEM OF THE STARS,” ETC.
CASSELL and COMPANY, Limited
LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE
1895
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