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John Herschel

noun

English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871). Synonyms: Herschel, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Sir John Herschel.

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... comet was seen by Sir John Herschel, after it had made its grand sweep around the sun, it was not more than six times the breadth of the sun's face away from the sun. And it had come careering through infinite space with awful velocity to this close ...

— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly

... not," {59a} says Sir John Herschel, "ask for demonstration when told that a gnat's wing, in its ordinary flight, beats many hundred times in a second? or that there exist animated and regularly organised beings many thousands of whose bodies laid close together would not extend to ...

— Unconscious Memory • Samuel Butler

... supposed to have left strong traces in the systems of modern times; showing the Egyptians to have had good approximate knowledge of the dimensions of the earth, and of the quadrature of the circle. These are points on which coincidence is hard to distinguish from intention. Sir John Herschel[193] noticed this work, and gave several coincidences, in the Athenaeum, Nos. 1696 and 1697, April 28 and May 5, 1860: and there are some remarks by Mr. Taylor in No. 1701, ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

... quotes a remarkable passage in the postscript to a letter written to Sir John Herschel in 1836: "In regard to the origination of new species, I am very glad to find that you think it probable it may be carried on through ...

— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard

Words linked to "John Herschel" : stargazer, astronomer, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, John Herschel Glenn Jr., uranologist, Herschel, Sir John Herschel