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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
1 For details of the life of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, see , Discoverers of the Universe: William and Caroline Herschel (Princeton, 2011).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 For biographies of Isaac and of each of his children, see , The Herschels of Hanover (Cambridge, 2007).Google Scholar
3 Private and Personal Acts 1793, c. 38.
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6 , Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles (1st edn, London, 1756).Google Scholar Herschel bought a copy of one of the many later editions.
7 The classic article on Herschel’s telescopes is , “‘On the power of penetrating into space’: The telescopes of William Herschel”, JHA, 7 (1976), 75–108.Google Scholar See also , “A compendium of all known William Herschel telescopes”, Journal of the Antique Telescope Society, no. 14 (1998), 4–15.Google Scholar
8 Michael Hoskin, “Vocations in conflict: William Herschel in Bath, 1766–1782”, History of Science, 41 (2003), 315–333.
9 RAS W.2/1.1, f. 1.
10 , “William Herschel, Bath, and the Philosophical Society”, in (ed.), Uranus and the Outer Planets (Cambridge, 1982), 23–34.Google Scholar
11 Caroline Herschel’s Autobiographies (ref. 4), 60, 131.Google Scholar
12 Banks to Herschel, 15 March 1782, RAS W.1/13.B.4.
13 J. A. Bennett, “Herschel’s scientific apprenticeship and the discovery of Uranus”, in Hunt (ed.), Uranus and the Outer Planets (ref. 10), 35–53.
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