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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%84" title="جون هيرشل – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="جون هيرشل" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Her%C5%9Fel" title="Con Herşel – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Con Herşel" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%84" title="جان هرشل – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="جان هرشل" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C" title="Джон Гершэль – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Джон Гершэль" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Джон Хершел – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Джон Хершел" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_William_Herschel" title="John Frederick William Herschel – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="John Frederick William Herschel" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%B6%CE%BF%CE%BD_%CE%A7%CE%AD%CF%81%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BB" title="Τζον Χέρσελ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Τζον Χέρσελ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%84" title="جان هرشل – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جان هرشل" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B4_%ED%97%88%EC%85%9C" title="존 허셜 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="존 허셜" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%B8%D5%B6_%D5%80%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B7%D5%A5%D5%AC" title="Ջոն Հերշել – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ջոն Հերշել" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_William_Herschel" title="John Frederick William Herschel – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="John Frederick William Herschel" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92%27%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%A9%D7%9C" title="ג'ון הרשל – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ג'ון הרשל" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C" title="Джон Гершель – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Джон Гершель" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEons_Her%C5%A1els" title="Džons Heršels – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Džons Heršels" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Џон Хершел – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Џон Хершел" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BA_%E0%B4%B9%E0%B5%86%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%86%E0%B5%BD" title="ജോൺ ഹെർഷെൽ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ജോൺ ഹെർഷെൽ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B7%E0%A4%B2" title="जॉन हर्षल – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="जॉन हर्षल" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AF%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%B0%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A8%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="ჯონ ჰერშელი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ჯონ ჰერშელი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84" title="چون هيرشيل – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="چون هيرشيل" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%82%E1%80%BB%E1%80%BD%E1%80%94%E1%80%BA_%E1%80%9F%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9B%E1%80%BE%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA" title="ဂျွန် ဟာရှယ် – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဂျွန် ဟာရှယ်" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" 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title="John Herschel – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C,_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD" title="Гершель, Джон – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Гершель, Джон" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frederick_William_Herschel" title="John Frederick William Herschel – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="John Frederick William Herschel" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%86%D9%86_%DA%BE%DB%8E%D8%B1%D8%B4%DB%8E%D9%84" title="جۆن ھێرشێل – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="جۆن ھێرشێل" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Џон Хершел – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Џон Хершел" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="John Herschel" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Herschel" title="John Herschel – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" 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searchaux" style="display:none">English polymath (1792–1871)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive 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Ward, after H. W. Pickersgill</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">John Frederick William Herschel</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1792-03-07</span>)</span>7 March 1792<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Slough" title="Slough">Slough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire" title="Buckinghamshire">Buckinghamshire</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">11 May 1871<span style="display:none">(1871-05-11)</span> (aged 79)<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Collingwood, near <a href="/wiki/Hawkhurst" title="Hawkhurst">Hawkhurst</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton College</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Contributions to the invention of photography</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Herschel" title="Margaret Herschel">Margaret Brodie Stewart</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Smith%27s_Prize" title="Smith's Prize">Smith's Prize</a> (1813)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copley_Medal" title="Copley Medal">Copley Medal</a> (1821, 1847)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lalande_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Lalande Medal">Lalande Medal</a> (1825)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Medal_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society" title="Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society">Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society</a> (1826, 1836)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Medal" title="Royal Medal">Royal Medal</a> (1836, 1840)</li> <li>Knight of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Guelphic_Order" title="Royal Guelphic Order">Royal Guelphic Order</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">Astronomy</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Photography" title="Photography">photography</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Optics" title="Optics">optics</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Botany" title="Botany">botany</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_science" title="Philosophy of science">philosophy of science</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_of_the_Royal_Guelphic_Order" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order">KH</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Fellow of the Royal Society">FRS</a></span></span> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'h' in 'hi'">h</span><span title="/ɜːr/: 'ur' in 'fur'">ɜːr</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/əl/: 'le' in 'bottle'">əl</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'h' in 'hi'">h</span><span title="/ɛər/: 'are' in 'bare'">ɛər</span></span>-/</a></span></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871)<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an English <a href="/wiki/Polymath" title="Polymath">polymath</a> active as a <a href="/wiki/Mathematician" title="Mathematician">mathematician</a>, <a href="/wiki/Astronomer" title="Astronomer">astronomer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chemist" title="Chemist">chemist</a>, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the <a href="/wiki/Blueprint" title="Blueprint">blueprint</a><sup id="cite_ref-EncycBrit_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EncycBrit-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-columbia_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-columbia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vernacu_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vernacu-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and did <a href="/wiki/Botanical" class="mw-redirect" title="Botanical">botanical</a> work.<sup id="cite_ref-HersNAH_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HersNAH-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Herschel originated the use of the <a href="/wiki/Julian_day" title="Julian day">Julian day</a> system in <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">astronomy</a>. He named seven <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn" title="Moons of Saturn">moons of Saturn</a> and four <a href="/wiki/Moons_of_Uranus" title="Moons of Uranus">moons of Uranus</a> – the seventh planet, discovered by his father <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Herschel" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir William Herschel">Sir William Herschel</a>. He made many contributions to the science of photography, and investigated <a href="/wiki/Colour_blindness" class="mw-redirect" title="Colour blindness">colour blindness</a> and the chemical power of <a href="/wiki/Ultraviolet" title="Ultraviolet">ultraviolet</a> rays. His <i>Preliminary Discourse</i> (1831), which advocated an <a href="/wiki/Inductive_reasoning" title="Inductive reasoning">inductive approach</a> to scientific experiment and theory-building, was an important contribution to the <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_science" title="Philosophy of science">philosophy of science</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECobb2012409–439_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECobb2012409–439-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_work_on_astronomy">Early life and work on astronomy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Herschel&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and work on astronomy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Herschel00.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/John_Herschel00.jpg/220px-John_Herschel00.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="262" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/John_Herschel00.jpg/330px-John_Herschel00.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/John_Herschel00.jpg/440px-John_Herschel00.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1356" data-file-height="1613" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of a young Herschel by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Edward_Chalon" title="Alfred Edward Chalon">Alfred Edward Chalon</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Disa_cornuta00.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Disa_cornuta00.jpg/220px-Disa_cornuta00.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="335" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Disa_cornuta00.jpg/330px-Disa_cornuta00.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Disa_cornuta00.jpg/440px-Disa_cornuta00.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1204" data-file-height="1833" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Disa_cornuta" title="Disa cornuta">Disa cornuta</a> (L.) Sw.</i> by Margaret & John Herschel</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%27Off_on_a_Comet%27_by_Paul_Philippoteaux_065.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/%27Off_on_a_Comet%27_by_Paul_Philippoteaux_065.jpg/220px-%27Off_on_a_Comet%27_by_Paul_Philippoteaux_065.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/%27Off_on_a_Comet%27_by_Paul_Philippoteaux_065.jpg/330px-%27Off_on_a_Comet%27_by_Paul_Philippoteaux_065.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/%27Off_on_a_Comet%27_by_Paul_Philippoteaux_065.jpg/440px-%27Off_on_a_Comet%27_by_Paul_Philippoteaux_065.jpg 2x" data-file-width="509" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption>An illustration to Jules Verne's novel <i><a href="/wiki/Off_on_a_Comet" title="Off on a Comet">Hector Servadac</a></i> from 1877 shows Herschel observing the <a href="/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet" title="Halley's Comet">Halley's Comet</a> in 1835 in Cape Town. Engraving by Charles Laplante after <a href="/wiki/Paul_Philippoteaux" title="Paul Philippoteaux">Paul Philippoteaux</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Herschel was born in <a href="/wiki/Slough" title="Slough">Slough</a>, Buckinghamshire, the son of Mary Baldwin and astronomer <a href="/wiki/Sir_William_Herschel" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir William Herschel">Sir William Herschel</a>. He was the nephew of astronomer <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Herschel" title="Caroline Herschel">Caroline Herschel</a>. He studied shortly at <a href="/wiki/Eton_College" title="Eton College">Eton College</a> and <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College, Cambridge</a>, graduating as <a href="/wiki/Senior_Wrangler" title="Senior Wrangler">Senior Wrangler</a> in 1813.<sup id="cite_ref-Venn_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Venn-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was during his time as an undergraduate that he became friends with the mathematicians <a href="/wiki/Charles_Babbage" title="Charles Babbage">Charles Babbage</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Peacock_(mathematician)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Peacock (mathematician)">George Peacock</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HersNAH_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HersNAH-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He left Cambridge in 1816 and started working with his father. He took up astronomy in 1816, building a <a href="/wiki/Reflecting_telescope" title="Reflecting telescope">reflecting telescope</a> with a mirror 18 inches (460 mm) in diameter, and with a 20-foot (6.1 m) <a href="/wiki/Focal_length" title="Focal length">focal length</a>. Between 1821 and 1823 he re-examined, with <a href="/wiki/James_South" title="James South">James South</a>, the double stars catalogued by his father.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1820. For his work with his father, he was presented with the <a href="/wiki/Gold_Medal_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society" title="Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society">Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society</a> in 1826 (which he won again in 1836), and with the <a href="/wiki/Lalande_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Lalande Medal">Lalande Medal</a> of the <a href="/wiki/French_Academy_of_Sciences" title="French Academy of Sciences">French Academy of Sciences</a> in 1825, while in 1821 the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a> bestowed upon him the <a href="/wiki/Copley_Medal" title="Copley Medal">Copley Medal</a> for his mathematical contributions to their Transactions. Herschel was made a Knight of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Guelphic_Order" title="Royal Guelphic Order">Royal Guelphic Order</a> in 1831.<sup id="cite_ref-HersNAH_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HersNAH-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also seemed to be aware of Indian thought and mathematics introduced to him by <a href="/wiki/George_Everest" title="George Everest">George Everest</a> as claimed by Mary Boole:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoole1901_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoole1901-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Some time about 1825, he came to England for two or three years, and made a fast and lifelong friendship with Herschel and with Babbage, who was then quite young.(.) My uncle returned from India. He never interfered with anyone's religious beliefs or customs. But no one under his influence could continue to believe in anything in the Bible being specially sacred, except the two elements which it has in common with other sacred books: the knowledge of our relation to others and of man's power to hold direct converse with the unseen truth.</p></blockquote> <p>He stated in his historical article <i>Mathematics in Brewster's Cyclopedia</i>: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The Brahma Sidd'hanta, the work of Brahmagupta, an Indian astronomer at the beginning of the seventh century, contains a general method for the resolution of indeterminate problems of the second degree; an investigation which actually baffled the skill of every modern analyst till the time of Lagrange's solution, not excepting the all inventive Euler himself.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoole1901_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoole1901-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Herschel served as <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society" title="President of the Royal Astronomical Society">president of the Royal Astronomical Society</a> three times: 1827–1829, 1839–1841 and 1847–1849.<sup id="cite_ref-RoyAstrSoc_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RoyAstrSoc-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDreyerTurner2014250_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDreyerTurner2014250-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Herschel's <i>A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy</i>, published early in 1831 as part of <i><a href="/wiki/Dionysius_Lardner%27s_Cabinet_cyclop%C3%A6dia" class="mw-redirect" title="Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet cyclopædia">Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet cyclopædia</a></i>, set out methods of scientific investigation with an orderly relationship between observation and theorising. He described nature as being governed by laws which were difficult to discern or to state mathematically, and the highest aim of <a href="/wiki/Natural_philosophy" title="Natural philosophy">natural philosophy</a> was understanding these laws through <a href="/wiki/Inductive_reasoning" title="Inductive reasoning">inductive reasoning</a>, finding a single unifying explanation for a phenomenon. This became an authoritative statement with wide influence on science, particularly at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> where it inspired the student <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> with "a burning zeal" to contribute to this work.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDarwin1958[httpdarwin-onlineorgukcontentframesetviewtypetextitemIDF1497pageseq69_67–68]_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDarwin1958[httpdarwin-onlineorgukcontentframesetviewtypetextitemIDF1497pageseq69_67–68]-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrowne1995128,_133_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrowne1995128,_133-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDarwin1985a[httpwwwdarwinprojectacukletterDCP-LETT-94xmlmark-94f2_Letter_No._94]_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDarwin1985a[httpwwwdarwinprojectacukletterDCP-LETT-94xmlmark-94f2_Letter_No._94]-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was elected as a member to the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a> in 1854.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Herschel published a catalogue of his astronomical observations in 1864, as the <i><a href="/wiki/General_Catalogue_of_Nebulae_and_Clusters" class="mw-redirect" title="General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters">General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters</a></i>, a compilation of his own work and that of his father's, expanding on the senior Herschel's <i><a href="/wiki/Catalogue_of_Nebulae" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalogue of Nebulae">Catalogue of Nebulae</a></i>. A further complementary volume was published posthumously, as the <i>General Catalogue of 10,300 Multiple and Double Stars</i>. </p><p>Herschel correctly considered astigmatism to be due to irregularity of the cornea and theorised that vision could be improved by the application of some animal jelly contained in a capsule of glass against the cornea. His views were published in an article entitled Light in 1828 and the <i>Encyclopædia Metropolitana</i> in 1845.<sup id="cite_ref-anti_Cont_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-anti_Cont-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Discoveries of Herschel include the galaxies <a href="/wiki/NGC_7" title="NGC 7">NGC 7</a>, <a href="/wiki/NGC_10" title="NGC 10">NGC 10</a>, <a href="/wiki/NGC_25" title="NGC 25">NGC 25</a>, and <a href="/wiki/NGC_28" title="NGC 28">NGC 28</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dumbbell_Nebula_-_Herschel,_1833_-_S3id13528690_0539.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Dumbbell_Nebula_-_Herschel%2C_1833_-_S3id13528690_0539.jpg/220px-Dumbbell_Nebula_-_Herschel%2C_1833_-_S3id13528690_0539.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="321" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Dumbbell_Nebula_-_Herschel%2C_1833_-_S3id13528690_0539.jpg/330px-Dumbbell_Nebula_-_Herschel%2C_1833_-_S3id13528690_0539.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Dumbbell_Nebula_-_Herschel%2C_1833_-_S3id13528690_0539.jpg/440px-Dumbbell_Nebula_-_Herschel%2C_1833_-_S3id13528690_0539.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2733" data-file-height="3985" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dumbbell_Nebula" title="Dumbbell Nebula">Dumbbell Nebula</a> illustrations in "Observations of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, Made at Slough, with a Twenty-Feet Reflector, between the Years 1825 and 1833" in <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society</i>, London, 1833</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orion_Nebula_-_Drawing_-_John_Herschel_-1847_-_rotated_by_180%C2%B0.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Orion_Nebula_-_Drawing_-_John_Herschel_-1847_-_rotated_by_180%C2%B0.jpg/220px-Orion_Nebula_-_Drawing_-_John_Herschel_-1847_-_rotated_by_180%C2%B0.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Orion_Nebula_-_Drawing_-_John_Herschel_-1847_-_rotated_by_180%C2%B0.jpg/330px-Orion_Nebula_-_Drawing_-_John_Herschel_-1847_-_rotated_by_180%C2%B0.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Orion_Nebula_-_Drawing_-_John_Herschel_-1847_-_rotated_by_180%C2%B0.jpg/440px-Orion_Nebula_-_Drawing_-_John_Herschel_-1847_-_rotated_by_180%C2%B0.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3095" data-file-height="2827" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Orion_Nebula" title="Orion Nebula">Orion Nebula</a> from the results of astronomical observations made during the years 1834–1838 at the Cape of Good Hope; being the completion of a telescopic survey of the whole surface of the visible heavens, commenced in 1825</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Visit_to_South_Africa">Visit to South Africa</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Herschel&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Visit to South Africa"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herschel_Memorial_Obelisk_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Herschel_Memorial_Obelisk_2024.jpg/220px-Herschel_Memorial_Obelisk_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Herschel_Memorial_Obelisk_2024.jpg/330px-Herschel_Memorial_Obelisk_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Herschel_Memorial_Obelisk_2024.jpg/440px-Herschel_Memorial_Obelisk_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>The Herschel Memorial Obelisk marking the location of Herschel's telescope in Cape Town.</figcaption></figure> <p>He declined an offer from the <a href="/wiki/Prince_Augustus_Frederick,_Duke_of_Sussex" title="Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex">Duke of Sussex</a> that they travel to <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Naval_ship" title="Naval ship">Navy ship</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Herschel had his own inherited money and he paid £500 for passage on the S.S. <i>Mountstuart Elphinstone</i>. He, his wife, their three children and his 20 inch telescope departed from <a href="/wiki/Portsmouth" title="Portsmouth">Portsmouth</a> on 13 November 1833.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The voyage to South Africa was made to catalogue the stars, <a href="/wiki/Nebula" title="Nebula">nebulae</a>, and other objects of the southern skies.<sup id="cite_ref-HersNAH_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HersNAH-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was to be a completion as well as extension of the survey of the northern heavens undertaken initially by his father <a href="/wiki/William_Herschel" title="William Herschel">William Herschel</a>. He arrived in <a href="/wiki/Cape_Town" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a> on 15 January 1834 and set up a private 21 ft (6.4 m) telescope at Feldhausen (site of present day <a href="/wiki/Grove_Primary_School_(South_Africa)" title="Grove Primary School (South Africa)">Grove Primary School</a>) at <a href="/wiki/Claremont,_Cape_Town" title="Claremont, Cape Town">Claremont</a>, a suburb of <a href="/wiki/Cape_Town" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a>. Amongst his other observations during this time was that of the return of <a href="/wiki/Comet_Halley" class="mw-redirect" title="Comet Halley">Comet Halley</a>. Herschel collaborated with <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Maclear" title="Thomas Maclear">Thomas Maclear</a>, the Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope and the members of the two families became close friends. During this time, he also witnessed the Great Eruption of <a href="/wiki/Eta_Carinae" title="Eta Carinae">Eta Carinae</a> (December 1837). </p><p>In addition to his astronomical work, however, this voyage to a far corner of the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British empire</a> also gave Herschel an escape from the pressures under which he found himself in London, where he was one of the most sought-after of all British men of science. While in <a href="/wiki/Southern_Africa" title="Southern Africa">southern Africa</a>, he engaged in a broad variety of scientific pursuits free from a sense of strong obligations to a larger scientific community. It was, he later recalled, probably the happiest time in his life.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Herschel,_South_Africa" title="Herschel, South Africa">village</a> in the contemporary province of <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Cape" title="Eastern Cape">Eastern Cape</a> is named after him. </p><p>Herschel combined his talents with those of his wife, Margaret, and between 1834 and 1838 they produced 131 botanical illustrations of fine quality, showing the Cape flora. Herschel used a <a href="/wiki/Camera_lucida" title="Camera lucida">camera lucida</a> to obtain accurate outlines of the specimens and left the details to his wife. Even though their portfolio had been intended as a personal record, and despite the lack of floral dissections in the paintings, their accurate rendition makes them more valuable than many contemporary collections. Some 112 of the 132 known flower studies were collected and published as <i>Flora Herscheliana</i> in 1996. The book also included work by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Davidson_Bell" title="Charles Davidson Bell">Charles Davidson Bell</a> and Thomas Bowler.<sup id="cite_ref-feld_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-feld-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As their home during their stay in the Cape, the Herschels had selected 'Feldhausen' ("Field Houses"),<sup id="cite_ref-feld_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-feld-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an old estate on the south-eastern side of <a href="/wiki/Table_Mountain" title="Table Mountain">Table Mountain</a>. Here John set up his reflector to begin his survey of the southern skies. </p><p>Herschel, at the same time, read widely. Intrigued by the ideas of gradual formation of landscapes set out in <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lyell" title="Charles Lyell">Charles Lyell</a>'s <i>Principles of Geology</i>, he wrote to Lyell on 20 February 1836 praising the book as a work that would bring "a complete revolution in [its] subject, by altering entirely the point of view in which it must thenceforward be contemplated" and opening a way for bold speculation on "that mystery of mysteries, the replacement of extinct species by others." Herschel himself thought <a href="/wiki/Catastrophism" title="Catastrophism">catastrophic extinction and renewal</a> "an inadequate conception of the Creator" and by analogy with other <a href="/wiki/Physical_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Physical law">intermediate causes</a>, "the origination of fresh species, could it ever come under our cognizance, would be found to be a natural in contradistinction to a miraculous process".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEvan_Wyhe2007197_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEvan_Wyhe2007197-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBabbage1838225–227_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBabbage1838225–227-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He prefaced his words with the couplet: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><div class="poem"> <p>He that on such quest would go must know not fear or failing<br /> To coward soul or faithless heart the search were unavailing. </p> </div></blockquote> <p>Taking a gradualist view of development and referring to evolutionary descent from a <a href="/wiki/Proto-language" title="Proto-language">proto-language</a>, Herschel commented: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist – battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation – and when we see what amount of change 2000 years has been able to produce in the languages of Greece & Italy or 1000 in those of Germany France & Spain we naturally begin to ask how long a period must have lapsed since the Chinese, the Hebrew, the Delaware & the Malesass [Malagasy] had a point in common with the German & Italian & each other – Time! Time! Time! – we must not impugn the Scripture Chronology, but we <i>must</i> interpret it in accordance with <i>whatever</i> shall appear on fair enquiry to be the <i>truth</i> for there cannot be two truths. And really there is scope enough: for the lives of the Patriarchs may as reasonably be extended to 5000 or 50000 years apiece as the days of Creation to as many thousand millions of years.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDesmondMoore1991214–215_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDesmondMoore1991214–215-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDarwin1985b[httpwwwdarwinprojectacukletterDCP-LETT-346xmlmark-346f5_Letter_No._346]_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDarwin1985b[httpwwwdarwinprojectacukletterDCP-LETT-346xmlmark-346f5_Letter_No._346]-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>The document was circulated, and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Babbage" title="Charles Babbage">Charles Babbage</a> incorporated extracts in his ninth and unofficial <i><a href="/wiki/Bridgewater_Treatise" class="mw-redirect" title="Bridgewater Treatise">Bridgewater Treatise</a></i>, which postulated laws set up by a divine programmer.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEvan_Wyhe2007197_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEvan_Wyhe2007197-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When <a href="/wiki/The_Voyage_of_the_Beagle" title="The Voyage of the Beagle">HMS <i>Beagle</i></a> called at <a href="/wiki/Cape_Town" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a>, Captain <a href="/wiki/Robert_FitzRoy" title="Robert FitzRoy">Robert FitzRoy</a> and the young naturalist <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> visited Herschel on 3 June 1836. Later on, Darwin would be influenced by Herschel's writings in developing his theory advanced in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Origin_of_Species" class="mw-redirect" title="The Origin of Species">The Origin of Species</a></i>. In the opening lines of that work, Darwin writes that his intent is "to throw some light on the origin of species – that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers," referring to Herschel. However, Herschel ultimately rejected the theory of natural selection.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Herschel returned to England in 1838, was created a <a href="/wiki/Herschel_baronets" title="Herschel baronets">baronet</a>, of Slough in the County of Buckingham,<sup id="cite_ref-HersNAH_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HersNAH-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and published <i>Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope</i> in 1847. In this publication he proposed the names still used today for the seven then-known satellites of <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mimas_(moon)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mimas (moon)">Mimas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Enceladus" title="Enceladus">Enceladus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tethys_(moon)" title="Tethys (moon)">Tethys</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dione_(moon)" title="Dione (moon)">Dione</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rhea_(moon)" title="Rhea (moon)">Rhea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Titan_(moon)" title="Titan (moon)">Titan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Iapetus_(moon)" title="Iapetus (moon)">Iapetus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELassell1848_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELassell1848-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same year, Herschel received his second Copley Medal from the Royal Society for this work. A few years later, in 1852, he proposed the names still used today for the four then-known satellites of <a href="/wiki/Uranus" title="Uranus">Uranus</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ariel_(moon)" title="Ariel (moon)">Ariel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Umbriel" title="Umbriel">Umbriel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Titania_(moon)" title="Titania (moon)">Titania</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Oberon_(moon)" title="Oberon (moon)">Oberon</a>. A stone obelisk, erected in 1842 and now in the grounds of <a href="/wiki/Grove_Primary_School_(South_Africa)" title="Grove Primary School (South Africa)">The Grove Primary School</a>, marks the site where his 20-ft reflector once stood.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Photography">Photography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Herschel&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Photography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herschel_first_picture_on_glass_1839_3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Herschel_first_picture_on_glass_1839_3.jpg/220px-Herschel_first_picture_on_glass_1839_3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Herschel_first_picture_on_glass_1839_3.jpg/330px-Herschel_first_picture_on_glass_1839_3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Herschel_first_picture_on_glass_1839_3.jpg/440px-Herschel_first_picture_on_glass_1839_3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="590" data-file-height="576" /></a><figcaption>Herschel's first glass-plate photograph, dated 9 September 1839, showing the mount of his father's <a href="/wiki/40-foot_telescope" title="40-foot telescope">40-foot telescope</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEvans197084_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEvans197084-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Herschel_by_Jula_Margaret_Cameron,_Abril_1867.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/John_Herschel_by_Jula_Margaret_Cameron%2C_Abril_1867.jpg/220px-John_Herschel_by_Jula_Margaret_Cameron%2C_Abril_1867.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/John_Herschel_by_Jula_Margaret_Cameron%2C_Abril_1867.jpg/330px-John_Herschel_by_Jula_Margaret_Cameron%2C_Abril_1867.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/John_Herschel_by_Jula_Margaret_Cameron%2C_Abril_1867.jpg/440px-John_Herschel_by_Jula_Margaret_Cameron%2C_Abril_1867.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3727" data-file-height="4793" /></a><figcaption>John Herschel, Portrait by <a href="/wiki/Julia_Margaret_Cameron" title="Julia Margaret Cameron">Julia Margaret Cameron</a>, April 1867</figcaption></figure> <p>Herschel made numerous important contributions to photography. He made improvements in <a href="/wiki/Photographic_processes" class="mw-redirect" title="Photographic processes">photographic processes</a>, particularly in inventing the <a href="/wiki/Cyanotype" title="Cyanotype">cyanotype</a><sup id="cite_ref-WDL1_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL1-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> process, which became known as <a href="/wiki/Blueprint" title="Blueprint">blueprints</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-EncycBrit_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EncycBrit-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-columbia_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-columbia-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vernacu_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vernacu-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and variations, such as the <a href="/wiki/Chrysotype" title="Chrysotype">chrysotype</a>. In 1839, he 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 <a href="/wiki/Photographic_paper" title="Photographic paper">photographic paper</a>. Herschel made experiments using <a href="/wiki/Photosensitive" class="mw-redirect" title="Photosensitive">photosensitive</a> emulsions of vegetable juices, called phytotypes, also known as <a href="/wiki/Anthotype" title="Anthotype">anthotypes</a>, and published his discoveries in the Philosophical Transactions of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a> of London in 1842.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHerschel1842182–214_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerschel1842182–214-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He collaborated in the early 1840s with <a href="/wiki/Henry_Collen" title="Henry Collen">Henry Collen</a>, portrait painter to <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a>. Herschel originally discovered the platinum process on the basis of the light sensitivity of platinum salts, later developed by <a href="/wiki/William_Willis_(inventor)" title="William Willis (inventor)">William Willis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-KNAW_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KNAW-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Herschel coined the term <i>photography</i> in 1839.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESchaaf197947–60_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESchaaf197947–60-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPeres2008_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPeres2008-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Herschel was also the first to apply the terms <i>negative</i> and <i>positive</i> to photography.<sup id="cite_ref-HersNAH_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HersNAH-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Herschel discovered <a href="/wiki/Sodium_thiosulfate" title="Sodium thiosulfate">sodium thiosulfate</a> to be a solvent of silver <a href="/wiki/Halide" title="Halide">halides</a> in 1819,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHerschel1819_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerschel1819-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and informed <a href="/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot" title="Henry Fox Talbot">Talbot</a> and <a href="/wiki/Louis_Daguerre" title="Louis Daguerre">Daguerre</a> of his discovery that this "hyposulphite of soda" ("hypo") could be used as a <a href="/wiki/Photographic_fixer" title="Photographic fixer">photographic fixer</a>, to "fix" pictures and make them permanent, after experimentally applying it thus in early 1839. </p><p>Herschel's ground-breaking research on the subject was read at the Royal Society in London in March 1839 and January 1840. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_aspects_of_Herschel's_career"><span id="Other_aspects_of_Herschel.27s_career"></span>Other aspects of Herschel's career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Herschel&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Other aspects of Herschel's career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Herschel wrote many papers and articles, including entries on meteorology, physical geography and the telescope for the eighth edition of the <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-HersNAH_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HersNAH-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also translated the <i><a href="/wiki/Iliad" title="Iliad">Iliad</a></i> of Homer. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/English_translations_of_Homer#Herschel" title="English translations of Homer">English translations of Homer § Herschel</a></div> <p>In 1823, Herschel published his findings on the optical spectra of metal salts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHerschel1823_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerschel1823-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Herschel invented the <a href="/wiki/Actinometer" title="Actinometer">actinometer</a> in 1825 to measure the direct heating power of the Sun's rays,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAnon1884527_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAnon1884527-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his work with the instrument is of great importance in the early history of <a href="/wiki/Photochemistry" title="Photochemistry">photochemistry</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lunar_Copernicus_crater_-_Herschel_1842.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Lunar_Copernicus_crater_-_Herschel_1842.jpg/220px-Lunar_Copernicus_crater_-_Herschel_1842.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Lunar_Copernicus_crater_-_Herschel_1842.jpg/330px-Lunar_Copernicus_crater_-_Herschel_1842.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Lunar_Copernicus_crater_-_Herschel_1842.jpg/440px-Lunar_Copernicus_crater_-_Herschel_1842.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3683" data-file-height="2920" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Calotype" title="Calotype">Calotype</a> of a model of the lunar crater Copernicus, 1842. Photographs of the Moon's surface were not yet possible at the time</figcaption></figure> <p>Herschel proposed a correction to the Gregorian calendar, making years that are multiples of 4000 <a href="/wiki/Common_year" title="Common year">common years</a> rather than <a href="/wiki/Leap_year" title="Leap year">leap years</a>, thus reducing the average length of the <a href="/wiki/Calendar_year" title="Calendar year">calendar year</a> from 365.2425 days to 365.24225.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHerschel1876a712_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHerschel1876a712-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (October 2024)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> Although this is closer to the <a href="/wiki/Mean_tropical_year" class="mw-redirect" title="Mean tropical year">mean tropical year</a> of 365.24219 days, his proposal has never been adopted because the <a href="/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar">Gregorian calendar</a> is based on the mean time between vernal <a href="/wiki/Equinox" title="Equinox">equinoxes</a> (currently <span style="white-space:nowrap">365.242<span style="margin-left:0.25em">374</span></span> days).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESteel2000185_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESteel2000185-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Herschel was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> in 1832,<sup id="cite_ref-AAAS_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AAAS-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1836, a foreign member of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Sciences" title="Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences">Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences</a>. </p><p>In 1835, the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Sun_(historical)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Sun (historical)">New York Sun</a></i> newspaper wrote a series of satiric articles that came to be known as the <a href="/wiki/Great_Moon_Hoax" title="Great Moon Hoax">Great Moon Hoax</a>, with statements falsely attributed to Herschel about his supposed discoveries of animals living on the Moon, including batlike winged humanoids. </p><p>Several locations are named for him: the village of <a href="/wiki/Herschel,_Saskatchewan" title="Herschel, Saskatchewan">Herschel</a> in western <a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan">Saskatchewan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, site of the discovery of <i><a href="/wiki/Dolichorhynchops_herschelensis" class="mw-redirect" title="Dolichorhynchops herschelensis">Dolichorhynchops herschelensis</a></i>, a type of <a href="/wiki/Plesiosauria" class="mw-redirect" title="Plesiosauria">plesiosaur</a>; <a href="/wiki/Mount_Herschel" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Herschel">Mount Herschel</a> in <a href="/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a>; the crater <a href="/wiki/J._Herschel_(crater)" title="J. Herschel (crater)">J. Herschel</a> on <a href="/wiki/The_Moon" class="mw-redirect" title="The Moon">the Moon</a>; and the settlement of <a href="/wiki/Herschel,_Eastern_Cape" class="mw-redirect" title="Herschel, Eastern Cape">Herschel, Eastern Cape</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Herschel_Girls%27_School" title="Herschel Girls' School">Herschel Girls' School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cape_Town" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a>, South Africa. </p><p>While it is commonly accepted that Herschel Island, in the Arctic Ocean, part of the <a href="/wiki/Yukon_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Yukon Territory">Yukon Territory</a>, was named after him, the entries in the expedition journal of Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Franklin" title="John Franklin">John Franklin</a> state that the latter wished to honour the Herschel family, of which John Herschel's father, Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Herschel" title="William Herschel">William Herschel</a>, and his aunt, <a href="/wiki/Caroline_Herschel" title="Caroline Herschel">Caroline Herschel</a>, are as notable as John.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurn2009317–323_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurn2009317–323-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Margaret_Herschel00.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Margaret_Herschel00.jpg/170px-Margaret_Herschel00.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Margaret_Herschel00.jpg/255px-Margaret_Herschel00.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Margaret_Herschel00.jpg/340px-Margaret_Herschel00.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1312" data-file-height="1546" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Herschel" title="Margaret Herschel">Margaret Brodie Stewart</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Edward_Chalon" title="Alfred Edward Chalon">Alfred Edward Chalon</a> 1829</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Constance-Anne-ne-Herschel-Lady-Lubbock-Caroline-Emilia-Mary-ne-Herschel-Lady-Hamilton-Gordon-Margaret-Louisa-Marshall-ne-Herschel-Isabella-Herschel-Francesca-Fancy-Herschel-Matilda-Rose-Waterfield-ne-Herschel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Constance-Anne-ne-Herschel-Lady-Lubbock-Caroline-Emilia-Mary-ne-Herschel-Lady-Hamilton-Gordon-Margaret-Louisa-Marshall-ne-Herschel-Isabella-Herschel-Francesca-Fancy-Herschel-Matilda-Rose-Waterfield-ne-Herschel.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Constance-Anne-ne-Herschel-Lady-Lubbock-Caroline-Emilia-Mary-ne-Herschel-Lady-Hamilton-Gordon-Margaret-Louisa-Marshall-ne-Herschel-Isabella-Herschel-Francesca-Fancy-Herschel-Matilda-Rose-Waterfield-ne-Herschel.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Constance-Anne-ne-Herschel-Lady-Lubbock-Caroline-Emilia-Mary-ne-Herschel-Lady-Hamilton-Gordon-Margaret-Louisa-Marshall-ne-Herschel-Isabella-Herschel-Francesca-Fancy-Herschel-Matilda-Rose-Waterfield-ne-Herschel.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="781" /></a><figcaption>Herschel's daughters Constance Anne, Caroline Emilia Mary, Margaret Louisa, Isabella, Francisca ("Fancy") and Matilda Rose, 1860s, <a href="/wiki/Albumen_print" title="Albumen print">albumen print</a>, unkn. photographer (<a href="/wiki/National_Portrait_Gallery,_London" title="National Portrait Gallery, London">NPG</a> x44697)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Herschel&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Herschel married <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Herschel" title="Margaret Herschel">Margaret Brodie Stewart</a> (1810–1884) on 3 March 1829<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at St. Marlyebone Church in London, and was father of the following children:<sup id="cite_ref-Burke1914_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burke1914-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>Caroline Emilia Mary Herschel (31 March 1830 – 29 January 1909), who married the soldier and politician <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton-Gordon_(British_Army_general)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Hamilton-Gordon (British Army general)">Alexander Hamilton-Gordon</a></li> <li>Isabella Herschel (5 June 1831 – 1893)</li> <li>Sir <a href="/wiki/William_James_Herschel" class="mw-redirect" title="William James Herschel">William James Herschel</a>, 2nd Bt. (9 January 1833 – 1917),</li> <li>Margaret Louisa Herschel (1834–1861), an accomplished artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Stewart_Herschel" title="Alexander Stewart Herschel">Alexander Stewart Herschel</a> (1836–1907), FRS, FRAS</li> <li>Col. <a href="/wiki/John_Herschel_the_Younger" title="John Herschel the Younger">John Herschel</a> FRS, FRAS, (1837–1921) surveyor</li> <li>Maria Sophia Herschel (1839–1929)</li> <li>Amelia Herschel (1841–1926) married Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Francis_Wade" title="Thomas Francis Wade">Thomas Francis Wade</a>, diplomat and sinologist</li> <li>Julia Herschel (1842–1933) married on 4 June 1878 to Captain (later <a href="/wiki/Admiral_(Royal_Navy)" title="Admiral (Royal Navy)">Admiral</a>) <a href="/wiki/John_Maclear" title="John Maclear">John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear</a></li> <li>Matilda Rose Herschel (1844–1914), a gifted artist, married William Waterfield (<a href="/wiki/Indian_Civil_Service" title="Indian Civil Service">Indian Civil Service</a>)</li> <li>Francisca Herschel (1846–1932)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constance_Anne_Herschel" title="Constance Anne Herschel">Constance Anne Herschel</a> (1855–20 June 1939), mathematician and scientist who became lecturer in natural sciences at <a href="/wiki/Girton_College,_Cambridge" title="Girton College, Cambridge">Girton College, Cambridge</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Herschel&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herschel%26darwin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Herschel%26darwin.jpg/220px-Herschel%26darwin.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Herschel%26darwin.jpg/330px-Herschel%26darwin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Herschel%26darwin.jpg/440px-Herschel%26darwin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2239" /></a><figcaption>The adjoining tombs of John Herschel and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Darwin" title="Charles Darwin">Charles Darwin</a> in <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Herschel died on 11 May 1871 at age 79 at Collingwood, his home near <a href="/wiki/Hawkhurst" title="Hawkhurst">Hawkhurst</a> in Kent. On his death, he was given a national funeral and buried in <a href="/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His obituary by Henry W Field of London was read to the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a> on 1 December 1871.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEField1871217–223_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEField1871217–223-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arms">Arms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Herschel&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="max-width: 100%"> <caption class="nowrap">Coat of arms of John Herschel </caption> <tbody><tr> <td style="width: 220px;"><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arms_of_the_Herschel_baronets.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Arms_of_the_Herschel_baronets.svg/180px-Arms_of_the_Herschel_baronets.svg.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Arms_of_the_Herschel_baronets.svg/270px-Arms_of_the_Herschel_baronets.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Arms_of_the_Herschel_baronets.svg/360px-Arms_of_the_Herschel_baronets.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="303" data-file-height="354" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td style="min-width:175px;"> <dl><dt>Crest</dt> <dd>A demi-terrestrial sphere Proper thereon an eagle wings elevated Or.</dd> <dt>Escutcheon</dt> <dd>Argent on a mount Vert a representation of the forty feet reflecting telescope with its apparatus Proper a chief Azure thereon the astronomical symbol of Uranus or the Georgium Sidus irradiated Or.</dd> <dt>Motto</dt> <dd>Coelis Exploratis<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Herschel&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>In chronological order</i> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herschel_-_Description_of_a_machine_for_resolving_by_inspection_certain_important_forms_of_transcendental_equations,_1832_-_687143.tiff" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Herschel_-_Description_of_a_machine_for_resolving_by_inspection_certain_important_forms_of_transcendental_equations%2C_1832_-_687143.tiff/lossy-page1-220px-Herschel_-_Description_of_a_machine_for_resolving_by_inspection_certain_important_forms_of_transcendental_equations%2C_1832_-_687143.tiff.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="261" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Herschel_-_Description_of_a_machine_for_resolving_by_inspection_certain_important_forms_of_transcendental_equations%2C_1832_-_687143.tiff/lossy-page1-330px-Herschel_-_Description_of_a_machine_for_resolving_by_inspection_certain_important_forms_of_transcendental_equations%2C_1832_-_687143.tiff.jpg 1.5x, 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.id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1819" class="citation journal cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/edinburghphilos05edingoog">"On the Hyposulphurous Acid and its Compounds"</a>. <i>The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">15 April</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Edinburgh+Philosophical+Journal&rft.atitle=On+the+Hyposulphurous+Acid+and+its+Compounds&rft.volume=1&rft.pages=19&rft.date=1819&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fedinburghphilos05edingoog&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1821" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://library.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/833e5157-cc4b-4c31-8a41-b09ebf056028/Holdings#tabnav"><i>On the Aberration of Compound Lenses and Object-Glasses</i></a>. London: W. Bulmer and W. Nicol. 1821.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=On+the+Aberration+of+Compound+Lenses+and+Object-Glasses&rft.place=London&rft.pub=W.+Bulmer+and+W.+Nicol&rft.date=1821&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flibrary.trin.cam.ac.uk%2FRecord%2F833e5157-cc4b-4c31-8a41-b09ebf056028%2FHoldings%23tabnav&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">"Abstract". <i>The Royal Society</i>. 1831. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/109979">109979</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Royal+Society&rft.atitle=Abstract&rft.date=1831&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F109979%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/treatisesonphysi00hersrich/treatisesonphysi00hersrich/page/n5/mode/2up"><i>Treatises on </i>Physical Astronomy, Light<i> and </i>Sound<i>, Contributed to the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana</i></a>. London: Richard Griffin.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Treatises+on+Physical+Astronomy%2C+Light+and+Sound%2C+Contributed+to+the+Encyclopaedia+Metropolitana&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Richard+Griffin&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+F.+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftreatisesonphysi00hersrich%2Ftreatisesonphysi00hersrich%2Fpage%2Fn5%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span> (The <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Metropolitana" title="Encyclopædia Metropolitana">Encyclopædia Metropolitana</a></i> was published in 30 vols. from 1817–1845)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1823" class="citation journal cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwhq76;view=1up;seq=529">"On the Absorption of Light by Coloured Media, and on the Colours of the Prismatic Spectrum Exhibited by Certain Flames; with an Account of a Ready Mode of Determining the Absolute Dispersive Power of Any Medium, by Direct Experiment"</a>. <i>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh</i>. <b>9</b> (2): 445–460. 1823. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS008045680003101X">10.1017/S008045680003101X</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:101517638">101517638</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Transactions+of+the+Royal+Society+of+Edinburgh&rft.atitle=On+the+Absorption+of+Light+by+Coloured+Media%2C+and+on+the+Colours+of+the+Prismatic+Spectrum+Exhibited+by+Certain+Flames%3B+with+an+Account+of+a+Ready+Mode+of+Determining+the+Absolute+Dispersive+Power+of+Any+Medium%2C+by+Direct+Experiment&rft.volume=9&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=445-460&rft.date=1823&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1017%2FS008045680003101X&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A101517638%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=J.+F.+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbabel.hathitrust.org%2Fcgi%2Fpt%3Fid%3Dhvd.hwhq76%3Bview%3D1up%3Bseq%3D529&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1830" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/preliminarydisco00hersiala"><i>A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy</i></a>. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. 1830.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Preliminary+Discourse+on+the+Study+of+Natural+Philosophy&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Longman%2C+Rees%2C+Orme%2C+Brown+%26+Green&rft.date=1830&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+Frederick+William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpreliminarydisco00hersiala&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1835" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/treatiseonastron00hersuoft#page/n1/mode/2up"><i>A Treatise on Astronomy</i></a> (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: Carey, Leah and Blanchard. 1835.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Treatise+on+Astronomy&rft.place=Philadelphia&rft.edition=3rd&rft.pub=Carey%2C+Leah+and+Blanchard&rft.date=1835&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+W.F.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Ftreatiseonastron00hersuoft%23page%2Fn1%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1840" class="citation cs2">"On the Chemical Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Preparations of Silver and Other Substances, Both Metallic and Non-Metallic, and on Some Photographic Processes", <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London</i>, <b>130</b>: 1–59, 20 February 1840, <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1840RSPT..130....1H">1840RSPT..130....1H</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1098%2Frstl.1840.0002">10.1098/rstl.1840.0002</a>, <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0261-0523">0261-0523</a>, <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/108209">108209</a>, <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:98119765">98119765</a>.</cite><span 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href="https://zenodo.org/record/1432380">"On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Vegetable Colours, and on Some New Photographic Processes"</a>, <i>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London</i>, <b>132</b>: 182–214, 1842, <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1842RSPT..132..181H">1842RSPT..132..181H</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1098%2Frstl.1842.0013">10.1098/rstl.1842.0013</a></span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Philosophical+Transactions+of+the+Royal+Society+of+London&rft.atitle=On+the+Action+of+the+Rays+of+the+Solar+Spectrum+on+Vegetable+Colours%2C+and+on+Some+New+Photographic+Processes&rft.volume=132&rft.pages=182-214&rft.date=1842&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1098%2Frstl.1842.0013&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1842RSPT..132..181H&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+William+Frederich&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fzenodo.org%2Frecord%2F1432380&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1847" class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/titleinfo/6893494"><i>Results of Astronomical Observations Made During the Years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope: Being the Completion of a Telescopic Survey of the Whole Surface of the Visible Heavens, Commenced in 1825</i></a>, London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1847</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Results+of+Astronomical+Observations+Made+During+the+Years+1834%2C+5%2C+6%2C+7%2C+8%2C+at+the+Cape+of+Good+Hope%3A+Being+the+Completion+of+a+Telescopic+Survey+of+the+Whole+Surface+of+the+Visible+Heavens%2C+Commenced+in+1825&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Smith%2C+Elder+and+Co.&rft.date=1847&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+Frederick+William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-rara.ch%2Fzut%2Fcontent%2Ftitleinfo%2F6893494&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1849" class="citation book cs1">John Herschel, ed. (1849). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112047068355&seq=11"><i>Manual of Scientific Inquiry, Prepared for the Use of Officers in Her Majesty's Navy, and Travellers in General</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/05022489">05022489</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Manual+of+Scientific+Inquiry%2C+Prepared+for+the+Use+of+Officers+in+Her+Majesty%27s+Navy%2C+and+Travellers+in+General&rft.date=1849&rft_id=info%3Alccn%2F05022489&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+Frederick+William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbabel.hathitrust.org%2Fcgi%2Fpt%3Fid%3Duiug.30112047068355%26seq%3D11&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1861" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/meteorologyfrom01hersgoog/page/n8/mode/2up">"Meteorology"</a>. <i>Encyclopædia britannica</i>. 1861.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Meteorology&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+britannica&rft.date=1861&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+Frederick+William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmeteorologyfrom01hersgoog%2Fpage%2Fn8%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1864" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/generalcatalogue00hersrich/generalcatalogue00hersrich/page/n3/mode/2up"><i>A General Catalogue of Nebulæ and Clusters of Stars</i></a>. 1864.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+General+Catalogue+of+Nebul%C3%A6+and+Clusters+of+Stars&rft.date=1864&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+Frederick+William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgeneralcatalogue00hersrich%2Fgeneralcatalogue00hersrich%2Fpage%2Fn3%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1869" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zCozAQAAMAAJ"><i>Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects</i></a>. George Routledge & Sons. 1869. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibcode (identifier)">Bibcode</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1869flss.book.....H">1869flss.book.....H</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Familiar+Lectures+on+Scientific+Subjects&rft.pub=George+Routledge+%26+Sons&rft.date=1869&rft_id=info%3Abibcode%2F1869flss.book.....H&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+Frederick+William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DzCozAQAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1874" class="citation book cs1">R. Main; C. Pritchard, eds. (1874). <i>A Catalogue of 10,300 Multiple and Double Stars, Arranged in the Order of Right Ascension</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Catalogue+of+10%2C300+Multiple+and+Double+Stars%2C+Arranged+in+the+Order+of+Right+Ascension&rft.date=1874&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+Frederick+William&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1876a" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3oQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA712"><i>Outlines of Astronomy</i></a>. D. Appleton and Company. 1876a.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Outlines+of+Astronomy&rft.pub=D.+Appleton+and+Company&rft.date=1876&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+Frederick+William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3oQ-AAAAYAAJ%26pg%3DPA712&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerschel1876b" class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/popularlectureso00hersiala"><i>Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects</i></a>. London: Dalby, Isbister & Co. 1876b.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Popular+Lectures+on+Scientific+Subjects&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Dalby%2C+Isbister+%26+Co.&rft.date=1876&rft.aulast=Herschel&rft.aufirst=John+Frederick+William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fpopularlectureso00hersiala&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_Popular_Culture">In Popular Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Herschel&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: In Popular Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sir John Herschel served as the basis for the character of the same name in the radio-musical series <i>Pulp Musicals</i>. Played by Curt Mega, the series features a highly fictionalized version of Herschel.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Herschel&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em ;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ODNB-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ODNB_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ODNB_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ODNB_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ODNB_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ODNB_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCrowe" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Crowe, Michael J. "Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, first baronet (1792–1871)". <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i> (online ed.). Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F13101">10.1093/ref:odnb/13101</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Herschel%2C+Sir+John+Frederick+William%2C+first+baronet+%281792%E2%80%931871%29&rft.btitle=Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.edition=online&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F13101&rft.aulast=Crowe&rft.aufirst=Michael+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span> <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(Subscription or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public">UK public library membership</a> required.)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160530102301/http://www.dictionary.com/browse/herschel">"Herschel"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Random_House_Webster%27s_Unabridged_Dictionary" title="Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary">Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary</a></i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/herschel">the original</a> on 30 May 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Random+House+Webster%27s+Unabridged+Dictionary&rft.atitle=Herschel&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dictionary.com%2Fbrowse%2Fherschel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-EncycBrit-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-EncycBrit_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-EncycBrit_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGo1970" class="citation book cs1">Go, F. E. (1970). "Blueprint". <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i>. Vol. 3 (Expo'70 ed.). Chicago: William Benton. p. 816.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Blueprint&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft.place=Chicago&rft.pages=816&rft.edition=Expo%2770&rft.pub=William+Benton&rft.date=1970&rft.aulast=Go&rft.aufirst=F.+E.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-columbia-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-columbia_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-columbia_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBridgwaterSherwood1950" class="citation book cs1">Bridgwater, William; Sherwood, Elizabeth J., eds. (1950). "blueprint". <i>The Columbia Encyclopedia in One Volume</i> (2nd ed.). New York City: Columbia University Press. p. 214.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=blueprint&rft.btitle=The+Columbia+Encyclopedia+in+One+Volume&rft.place=New+York+City&rft.pages=214&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Columbia+University+Press&rft.date=1950&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-vernacu-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-vernacu_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-vernacu_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRosenthal2000" class="citation web cs1">Rosenthal, Richard T. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 June</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Vernacular+Photography&rft.atitle=The+Cyanotype&rft.date=2000&rft.aulast=Rosenthal&rft.aufirst=Richard+T.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fvernacularphotography.com%2Fvpm%2Fv1n1%2Fthe_cyanotype.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HersNAH-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HersNAH_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HersNAH_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HersNAH_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HersNAH_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HersNAH_6-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HersNAH_6-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HersNAH_6-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070510211707/http://www.nahste.ac.uk/isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0327.html">"Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, 1792–1871, astronomer"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/NAHSTE" class="mw-redirect" title="NAHSTE">NAHSTE</a> project</i>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a>. 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Elsevier. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-240-80998-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-240-80998-4"><bdi>978-0-240-80998-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Concise+Focal+Encyclopedia+of+Photography%3A+From+the+First+Photo+on+Paper+to+the+Digital+Revolution&rft.pub=Elsevier&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-240-80998-4&rft.aulast=Peres&rft.aufirst=Michael+R.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvmZtFrHO7doC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchaaf1979" class="citation journal cs1">Schaaf, Larry (1979). 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Snyder">Snyder, Laura</a> (2011), <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/philosophicalbre0000snyd"><i>The Philosophical Breakfast Club: Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World</i></a></span>, New York: Broadway Books, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7679-3049-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7679-3049-9"><bdi>978-0-7679-3049-9</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Philosophical+Breakfast+Club%3A+Four+Remarkable+Friends+Who+Transformed+Science+and+Changed+the+World&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Broadway+Books&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-7679-3049-9&rft.aulast=Snyder&rft.aufirst=Laura&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fphilosophicalbre0000snyd&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Herschel" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Herschel&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; 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(1835–1841)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ewart_Gladstone" title="William Ewart Gladstone">William Ewart Gladstone</a> (1841–1845)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Clerk,_6th_Baronet" title="Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet">Sir George Clerk</a> (1845–1846)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Lalor_Sheil" title="Richard Lalor Sheil">Richard Lalor Sheil</a> (1846–1850)</li> <li>Sir <a class="mw-selflink selflink">John Herschel</a> (1850–1855)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Graham_(chemist)" title="Thomas Graham (chemist)">Thomas Graham</a> (1855–1869)</li> <li>Vacant (1869–1879)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Office abolished in 1879 with duties given to the <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer" title="Chancellor of the Exchequer">Chancellor of the Exchequer</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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(1804)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Humphry_Davy" title="Humphry Davy">Humphry Davy</a> (1805)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Andrew_Knight" title="Thomas Andrew Knight">Thomas Andrew Knight</a> (1806)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Everard_Home" title="Everard Home">Everard Home</a> (1807)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_(chemist)" title="William Henry (chemist)">William Henry</a> (1808)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Troughton" title="Edward Troughton">Edward Troughton</a> (1809)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sir_Benjamin_Collins_Brodie,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet">Benjamin Collins Brodie</a> (1811)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Thomas_Brande" title="William Thomas Brande">William Thomas Brande</a> (1813)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a 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Schwann</a> (1845)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Urbain_Le_Verrier" title="Urbain Le Verrier">Urbain Le Verrier</a> (1846)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">John Herschel</a> (1847)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Couch_Adams" title="John Couch Adams">John Couch Adams</a> (1848)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Roderick_Murchison" title="Roderick Murchison">Roderick Murchison</a> (1849)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Andreas_Hansen" title="Peter Andreas Hansen">Peter Andreas Hansen</a> (1850)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="19th-century_English_photographers" style="padding:3px"><table 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Laroche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Cockle_Lucas" title="Richard Cockle Lucas">Richard Cockle Lucas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farnham_Maxwell-Lyte" title="Farnham Maxwell-Lyte">Farnham Maxwell-Lyte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Eastman_Palmer_%26_Sons" title="William Eastman Palmer & Sons">William Eastman Palmer & Sons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Pumphrey" title="William Pumphrey">William Pumphrey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Robertson_(photographer)" title="James Robertson (photographer)">James Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Peach_Robinson" title="Henry Peach Robinson">Henry Peach Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Seaman" title="Alfred Seaman">Alfred Seaman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Shepherd_(photographer)" title="Charles Shepherd (photographer)">Charles Shepherd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Martha_St._John" title="Jane Martha St. John">Jane Martha St. John</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Meadow_Sutcliffe" 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