Author:John Frederick William Herschel

John Frederick William Herschel
(1792–1871)

John Frederick William Herschel

Works

• A Collection of Examples of the Applications of the Calculus of Finite Differences (1820) (external scan)
• On the Aberration of Compound Lenses and Object-Glasses (1821)
• A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831) (external scan)
• Treatise on astronomy (1833) (external scan)
• The Ninth Bridgewater treatise; a fragment (1837), co-authored with Charles Babbage (external scan)
• Results of astronomical observations made during the years 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, at the Cape of Good Hope (1847) (external scan)
• A Brief Notice of the Life, Researches, and Discoveries of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1847) (external scan)
• Outlines of Astronomy (1849) (external scan)
• (ed.) A Manual of Scientific Enquiry (1849) IA, (5th ed., 1886 (transcription project))
• Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews (1857) (external scan)
• General Catalogue of 10,300 Multiple and Double Stars (published posthumously)
• Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects (1866) (external scan)
• General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters (1864) (external scan)

Journal articles

• Auszug aus einem Briefe des Herrn J. F. W. Herschel an den Herausgeber in Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 48
• Obituary of Francis Baily, Royal Astronomical Society (PDF)

Works about Herschel

• "Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, Bart.," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Herschel, John Frederick William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Herschel, Sir John Frederick William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Herschel, Sir John Frederick William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• The Herschels and modern astronomy (1895), by Agnes Mary Clerke (external scan)
• Great astronomers (1895), by Robert Stawell Ball (external scan)
• "Sir John Frederick William Herschel" in Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century (1916), by Alexander Macfarlane (transcription project)