INDEX.
- Actinometer, J. Herschel’s, 152, 179, 180
- Adams, J. C., at Collingwood, 188
- Ages of heavenly bodies, 68, 94, 170
- Alexander, the Czar, 49
- Amici, of Modena, 148, 150
- Apertures, method of, 61, 63
- Apex, solar, 78, 80
- Archbishop of Canterbury, and George III., 38
- Argelander, 80, 106
- Asteroids, 46, 90–1, 95, 100
- Astrometer, J. Herschel’s, 177
- Astronomical Society, 49, 152, 188
- Aubert, Alexander, 16, 101, 124
- Babbage, companionship with J. Herschel, 143–4, 149, 152;
- astatic needle, 208
- Bailey, S. I., 169, 170
- Baily, Francis, 164, 185, 186, 187
- Barnard, diameters of asteroids, 91;
- nebulosities, 110–11;
- photographs of Milky Way, 174
- Bates, Joah, anecdote of W. Herschel, 12
- Bath, centre of fashion, 12;
- Herschel’s residences there, 17, 26, 47
- Beckedorff, Mrs., 126, 127, 160;
- Miss, 138
- Bessel, solar movement, 80;
- estimate of W. Herschel, 109;
- Halley’s comet, 177;
- at Collingwood, 187;
- memoir of, 216
- Biot, estimate of J. Herschel, 201
- Bonaparte, Lucien, 33, 44
- Bonaparte, Napoleon, Herschel’s interview with, 47
- Bradley, observation of Castor, 76
- Brougham, Lord, 53, 88, 90, 207
- Burney, Dr., notices of W. Herschel, 12, 44, 45–6;
- walk through forty-foot, 38;
- notices of Caroline and J. Herschel, 125, 142
- Burney, Miss, meetings with W. Herschel, 38–9;
- with Mrs. and Miss Herschel, 44, 124, 125, 127
- Burnham, double stars, 103;
- planetary nebulæ, 155
- Campbell, Thomas, admiration for W. Herschel, 47–8;
- notice of his son, 145
- Cavendish, anecdote of, 100
- Clay Hall, 36
- Climate, changes of, 82
- Comet, of October 1806, 48;
- of 1811, 94;
- Encke’s, 124, 175;
- of 1819, 128–9;
- Biela’s, 153;
- Halley’s, 175–6, 180, 211
- Comets, decay of, 94;
- Miss Herschel’s, 124, 125
- Common, Dr., five-foot reflector, 99
- Construction of the Heavens, 53, 60, 113–114, 214–15
- Dante and the “Divina Commedia,” 15
- Datchet, house at, 32, 36
- Dawes, sun-spot nuclei, 83
- De la Rue, photoheliograph, 210
- De Morgan, letter to Captain Smyth, 188–9;
- Herschel and the coinage, 191;
- friendship with, 197;
- dislike to hexameters, 217
- Dreyer, Catalogue of Nebulæ, 192
- Easton, Milky Way structure, 106
- Edgeworth, Miss, at Slough and Collingwood, 192–3
- Feldhausen, 163, 180, 181
- Flamsteed, British Catalogue, 80, 123, 126
- Galileo, double-star method of parallaxes, 55
- Gauss, 151, 201, 205
- George III., patronage of Herschel, 10, 24, 28–9, 30, 32, 33;
- taste for astronomy, 30, 47;
- walk through great telescope, 38
- Gill, Dr., Herschel’s micrometers, 103;
- photographic catalogue, 106;
- photographs of Argo nebula, 167;
- of Omega Centauri, 169
- Gordon, Lady, portrait of Sir J. Herschel, 202
- Gould, Dr., solar cluster, 107, 215
- Grahame, James, 149
- Gravitation, extension of to stellar systems, 77, 148
- Gregorian reflectors, 20, 29
- Griesbach, Mrs., 10, 116;
- her sons, 10, 28, 29
- Halley, list of nebulæ, 19;
- stellar motions, 77
- Hamilton, Sir W. R., communications with J. Herschel, 146, 152, 158, 173, 188;
- speech by, 182;
- at Collingwood, 193;
- quaternions, 194–5
- Haydn, visit to Slough, 44
- Heat-rays in solar spectrum, 95–6
- Herschel, Alexander, assisted his brother, 13, 21, 27, 120;
- accompanied him to Göttingen, 37;
- supported by him, 51;
- care for his sister, 118
- Herschel, Professor Alexander, meteoric researches, 201
- Herschel, Caroline, fetched to Bath, 15, 118;
- help in speculum making, 15, 20, 124;
- a singer, 21, 117, 119;
- remarks, 25, 27, 34, 49;
- letters from W. Herschel, 28, 29, 30, 129;
- household cares, 32, 118, 121;
- reminiscences, 35, 36, 37, 39, 48, 50, 68;
- annuity, 51, 131;
- birth and childhood, 115–16;
- education, 115, 118, 121;
- visits to London, 121, 127;
- discoveries of nebulæ, 122;
- of comets, 124–5, 139;
- her brother’s assistant, 122–3, 125;
- catalogues nebulæ, 123, 132;
- Index to Flamsteed’s observations, 126;
- royal attentions, 126, 127, 133, 135, 139;
- anxiety about her brother’s health, 128–9;
- return to Hanover, 130–1;
- Gold Medals bestowed on, 132, 138;
- joy in her nephew’s career, 134–5, 159;
- his visits, 135–36, 159;
- Recollections and Journals, 137, 138;
- death, 139;
- personality, 139–41;
- anecdotes of J. Herschel’s childhood, 142;
- his letters to her, 151, 152, 153, 162–3, 164, 175, 176, 187;
- her portrait, 196;
- her advice to him, 205
- Herschel, Dietrich, 20–1, 51, 127–8, 130, 131
- Herschel, Sir John, dismantling of great telescope, 43;
- catalogues of nebulæ, 132, 155, 191–2;
- visits to Hanover, 135–6, 151, 159–60, 184;
- nebular observations, 136, 153, 154–7, 165–7;
- Cape Expedition, 135, 159–2, 181–2;
- birth and childhood, 142;
- university career, 143–5;
- medals awarded to, 145, 148, 149, 157, 187, 201;
- work on double stars, 134, 146–48, 157;
- method for computing orbits, 148–9;
- general catalogue, 192;
- ascents of Monte Rosa and Etna, 149–50;
- explorations in Auvergne, 152;
- experiments on solar radiation, 151–2, 179;
- visit to Ireland, 152;
- cometary observations, 153, 175–6, 180, 189;
- telescopes, 153, 158, 164, 183;
- discovery of star in Orion-trapezium, 158;
- marriage, 159;
- Feldhausen, 163, 180–1;
- Cape climate, 164;
- Magellanic Clouds, 165–6;
- Argo nebula, 167;
- Eta Argûs, 168–9;
- globular clusters, 169–71, 213;
- star-gauging, 171–2;
- comets, 175–6;
- stellar photometry, 177;
- solar theory, 178–9, 211;
- Saturnian satellites, 180;
- magnetic work, 184, 189, 208;
- constellational reform, 185;
- removal to Collingwood, 186;
- Cape Results, 186–7, 211–12;
- President Astronomical Society, 188;
- Master of the Mint, 190–1;
- guests at Collingwood, 188, 193, 195;
- sonnet, 194;
- family life, 195–6;
- death, 197;
- powers and character, 198–201;
- books, 205–8;
- photographic experiments, 209–10;
- nature of nebulæ, 212–14;
- solar cluster, 215;
- poetical performances, 216–18;
- philosophy of discovery, 219
- Herschel, Colonel John, examination of nebular spectra, 201
- Herschel, Isaac, 9, 21, 115, 116
- Herschel, Jacob, 116, 117, 128
- Herschel, Lady, the elder, 44, 50, 152, 160
- Herschel, Lady, the younger, 159, 192, 194, 201
- Herschel, Sir William, birth, 9;
- musical career, 10–16, 21, 26, 121;
- telescope, making, 14–15, 17, 19, 20, 22;
- thirty-foot, 26–8,
- seven-foot, 28–9;
- for sale, 33;
- forty-foot, 34, 37, 38, 41–3, 49, 50, 100, 137, 210;
- twenty-foot, 35–6, 40, 50;
- front-view telescopes, 40, 41, 102, 153;
- space-penetrating power of, 61, 98;
- reviews of the heavens, 19, 20, 26, 35, 36, 42, 46;
- early papers, 22–3;
- discovery of Uranus, 24–5, 120;
- observations of double stars, 26, 49, 55–6, 75;
- interviews with the king, 28–30;
- royal astronomer, 30, 32–3;
- mode of observing, 30, 122;
- discovery of Uranian satellites, 40, 93, 153;
- of Saturnian satellites, 41, 43, 92;
- marriage, 44;
- aversion to poetry, 45–6;
- interview with Bonaparte, 47;
- observations of comets, 48, 94, 128–9;
- failure of health, 49–50, 128–9;
- death and character, 51;
- construction of the heavens, 53–4, 60, 114;
- star distances, 54–5, 57, 60–1, 64, 75;
- star-gauging, 57–8, 113;
- nature of the Milky Way, 57–9, 62–3;
- chasms in, 68;
- method of apertures, 61;
- catalogues of nebulæ, 64;
- varieties, 65;
- island universes, 66–7, 72;
- development, 67–8;
- nebulous fluid, 69–70;
- condensation into stars, 71–2, 109;
- nebular distribution, 73;
- discovery of binary stars, 76–7, 147;
- transport of the solar system, 77, 80, 108;
- stellar photometry, 80–2, 174–5;
- theory of the sun, 83–6, 211;
- sun spots and weather, 87–8;
- observations of Venus, 88;
- of Mars, 89;
- of the asteroids, 90;
- of Saturn, 91;
- law of satellite-rotation, 92;
- lunar volcanoes, 93;
- detection of infra-red heat-rays, 95–7;
- use of high powers, 101–2;
- micrometers, 103;
- photometric enumeration, 106;
- solar cluster, 107–8;
- diffused nebulosities, 110–11;
- a founder of sidereal astronomy, 112
- Herschel, Sir William J., 49, 136, 183, 201
- Huggins, Dr., spectra of nebulæ, 109, 214;
- of stars, 113
- Humboldt, 133, 138, 170, 184
- Huygens, improvement of telescopes, 17
- Jacob, southern Milky Way, 172
- Japetus, rotation of, 92
- Jupiter, trade wind theory of, 91;
- rotation of satellites, 93
- Kapteyn, solar cluster, 107
- Knipping, Mrs., 137, 138
- Lacaille, southern nebulæ, 19
- Langley, bolometer, 95;
- atmospheric absorption, 152, 179
- Laplace, 18, 47, 91, 201, 207
- Lassell, Uranian satellites, 93;
- reflectors, 99;
- observation of Mimas, 180
- Le Verrier, 187, 188
- Lexell, orbit of Uranus, 24
- Maclear, Sir Thomas, 162, 168, 176, 181
- Magellan, Von, accounts of William and Caroline Herschel, 40, 122
- Magellanic clouds, 165–6
- Magnitudes, stellar, 81, 104–5, 177
- Mars, analogy with the earth, 89
- Maskelyne, 25, 29, 76
- Mayer, Christian, satellite-stars, 75
- Mayer, Tobias, solar translation, 77, 78
- Michell, revolving stars, 75;
- solar group, 107
- Micrometer, lamp, 24, 103;
- wire, 56, 103
- Milky Way, rifts in, 50, 67–8, 173, 175, 215;
- structure, 57–59, 62, 173–4, 214–15;
- spectral peculiarity, 105;
- distance, 106, 173, 214;
- splendour in southern hemisphere, 172;
- photographic portrayal, 174–5
- Miller, Dr., 11, 12
- Mitchell, Miss, visit to Collingwood, 195–6
- Monck, stellar spectroscopic distribution, 107
- Moon, mountains of, 22, 23;
- volcanoes, 93–4.
- Nasmyth, opinion of J. Herschel, 196–7;
- solar willow leaves, 211
- Nebula, Orion, 15, 43, 65, 70, 71, 110, 111, 153, 167, 214;
- Dumb-bell, 157;
- Argo, 167;
- Andromeda, 214
- Nebulæ, catalogues, 19, 64, 123, 132, 191–2;
- discoveries, 35, 64, 122, 165;
- nature, 66, 212–4;
- development, 67, 69, 109–10;
- distribution, 73, 214
- Nebulæ, annular, 65, 157, 165
- Nebulæ, double, 72, 156
- Nebulæ, planetary, 65, 67, 71;
- spectrum, 109;
- satellites to, 155;
- colour, 165
- Nebulæ, rifted, 157
- Nebular theory, 71–2, 109
- Newton, law of gravitation, 17, 77;
- reflectors, 20, 23;
- mode of investigation, 23, 206
- Olbers, origin of asteroids, 90;
- comet of 1819, 129;
- light extinction, 174;
- visit from J. Herschel, 184
- Orange, Prince of, enquiries at Slough, 39
- Papendick, Mrs., remarks on William and Caroline Herschel, 39, 44, 125
- Peacock, Dean, 143, 194, 203
- Photography, of stellar spectra, 104, 107;
- of nebulæ, 110–11, 113, 166–7;
- star charting by, 113, 172, 199;
- of clusters, 169–70, 171;
- of solar spectrum, 209;
- of sun-spots, 210
- Photometric enumeration, 60, 106, 107, 114;
- catalogues, 80
- Photometry, stellar, 81, 104, 177;
- photographic, 105
- Piazzi, visit to Slough, 39, 150
- Pickering, E. C. and W. H., photographs of Orion nebula, 111
- Pouillet, solar radiation, 179
- Pritchard, Dr., 143, 192, 201, 204
- Proctor, star-drift, 108;
- estimate of Sir J. Herschel, 199, 200;
- correspondence with, 218
- Ranyard, A. C., changes in nebulæ, 168;
- clusters, 213
- Roberts, Dr., photographs of nebulæ, 157, 165
- Rosse reflector, 99, 212
- Russell, H. C., photographs of Magellanic clouds, 166;
- of Argo nebula, 167;
- of Milky Way, 175
- Saturn, artificial, 30;
- satellites, 41, 43, 91, 92, 180;
- rings, 91–2
- Savary, stellar orbits, 148, 149
- Schröter, 34, 84, 88–9
- Secchi, 113, 211
- See, Dr., double nebulæ, 156
- Sirius, brilliancy, 42, 168;
- standard star, 58, 61, 63, 80
- Slough, W. Herschel’s residence at, 36, 44;
- birthplace of J. Herschel, 142
- Sniadecki, stay at Slough, 39
- Solar cluster, 107, 215
- Solar radiation, 151–2, 179
- Somerville, Mrs., 132
- South, Sir James, 146, 147, 149
- Spectrum analysis, 84, 204, 209
- Spencer, unity of sidereal system, 166
- Stanley, Dean, on J. Herschel, 199
- Star-clusters, 49, 59, 63, 67, 72, 169–71, 213
- Star-gauging, 57–8, 113, 171–2
- Stars, binary, 72, 156;
- discovery, 76–7, 147;
- orbits, 147–9
- Stars, double, observations of, 55–6, 103, 146–8, 157;
- colours, 56, 112, 156;
- nebular relations, 155
- Stars, distribution of, 58–9, 60, 73, 81, 106, 171–2
- Stars, movements of, 77, 107–8
- Stars, nebulous, 69, 70, 71
- Stars, spectra of, 83, 105
- Stars, spectroscopic binary, 104
- Stars, temporary, 66–7
- Stars, variable, 23, 81–2, 168–9
- Stokes, Sir G., fluorescence, 210
- Stone, Herschel’s assistant, 180
- Struve, W., 148, 158, 188
- Sun, translation, 77–80, 108;
- vicissitudes, 82, 87, 88;
- constitution, 83–6, 178–9, 211
- Sussex, Duke of, 158
- Telescopes, Improvement of, 17, 19, 20, 24–6, 33, 36, 98–100
- Uranus, discovery of, 24–5, 26, 120;
- satellites, 40, 93, 153
- Watson, Sir W., 16, 22, 27, 30, 47, 124
- Watt, James, 47
- Whewell, Dr., unity of sidereal system, 76, 166;
- friendship with J. Herschel, 145, 163, 191, 200;
- tidal data, 181;
- articles in Quarterly Review, 186, 205–6;
- Geological Society, 189;
- on optical enquiries, 203–4;
- hexameters, 217
- Wolf, Dr. Max, photographs of nebulæ, 111;
- of Milky Way, 175
- Wollaston, 145, 177
- Worlds, inhabited, 85, 86, 89, 147.