It looks like you're offline.
Donate
English (en) Change Website Language
Open Library logo
additional options menu
Last edited by MARC Bot
September 27, 2020 | History
Edit

Herschel, William Sir

We need a photo of Herschel, William Sir

German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)

Born 1738
Died 1822

34 works Add another?

  • Cover of: An account of the discovery of two satellites revolving round the Georgian planet

    First published in 1787 — 2 editions
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Description of a forty-feet reflecting telescope: By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From The philosophical transactions.

    First published in 1795 — 2 editions
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: The scientific papers of Sir William Herschel, knt. : including early papers hitherto unpublished; collected and edited under the direction of a joint committee of the Royal society and the Royal astronomical society, with a biographical introduction comp. mainly from unpublished material

    First published in 1912 — 2 editions
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Fifth and sixth catalogues of the comparative brightness of the stars: in continuation of those printed in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society' for 1796-99

    First published in 1906 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: On the parallax of the fixed stars

    First published in 1782 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Catalogue of double stars

    First published in 1782 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Description of a lamp-micrometer and the method of using it

    First published in 1782 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: On the remarkable appearances at the polar regions of the planet Mars, the inclination of its axis, the position of its poles, and its spheroidical figure: with a few hints relating to its real diameter and atmosphere

    First published in 1784 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Miscellaneous observations

    First published in 1792 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: The scientific papers of Sir William Herschel, knt. ...: including early papers hitherto unpublished; collected and edited under the direction of a joint committee of the Royal society and the Royal astronomical society, with a biographical introduction comp. mainly from unpublished material

    First published in 1912 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: The Herschel chronicle: the life story of William Herschel and his sister Caroline Herschel

    First published in 1933 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Account of a comet

    First published in 1781 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Über den Bau des Himmels: Abhandlungen über die Struktur des Universums und die Entwicklung der Himmelskörper : 1784-1814

    First published in 2001 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Catalogue of a second thousand of new nebulæ and clusters of stars: with a few introductory remarks on the construction of the heavens. By William Herschel, ... From the Philosophical transactions.

    First published in 1789 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Catalogue of one thousand new nebulæ and clusters of stars: By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, April 27, 1786.

    First published in 1786 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Experiments on the solar: and on the terrestrial rays that occasion heat; with a comparative view of the laws to which light and heat, ... are subject, ... By William Herschel, ... Part ii. From the Philosophical transactions.

    First published in 1800 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Investigation of the cause of that indistinctness of vision which has been ascribed to the smallness of the optic pencil. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, June 22, 1786

    First published in 1786 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: letter of Herschel.

    First published in 1963 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Observations of a quintuple belt on the planet Saturn: also, an account of some particulars observed during the late eclipse of the sun: and also, on the rotation of the planet Saturn upon its axis. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions.

    First published in 1794 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

  • Cover of: Observations of the changeable brightness of the satellites of Jupiter: and of the variation in their apparent magnitudes; with a determination of the time of their rotatory motions on their axes. To which is added, a measure of the diameter of the second satellite, and an estimate of the comparative size of all the four. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions.

    First published in 1797 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

We need a photo of Herschel, William Sir

German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)

Born 1738
Died 1822

Subjects

Astronomy, Stars, Catalogs, Double stars, Observations, Classification, Cosmogony, Early works to 1800, Magnitudes, Micrometers (Instruments), Parallax, Planets, Rotation, Satellites

Places

Uranus (Planet), Mars (Planet)

People

Caroline Herschel, William Herschel Sir

Lists

Add to List

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

ID Numbers

Links outside Open Library

No links yet. Add one?

Alternative names

  • William Herschel
  • Herschel, William Sir.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ids
June 7, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Removed period from death date
November 11, 2010 Edited by Alan Millar merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import