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id: 12340
author: Anonymous
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title:
  The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers Sir William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Caroline Herschel

summary:
  The house at Datchet--Housekeeping details--A devoted sister--Life at Datchet--Herschel's astronomical observations--Testing and trying eyepieces--The colossal telescope--Miss Herschel's accident--Removed to Slough--Constructing a forty-foot telescope--Brother and sister--Heroic self-denial--Occupations at Slough--Royal liberality--An astronomer's triumphs--About the nebulae--Investigation of the sun's constitution--The solar spots, and their influence--Physical constitution of the moon--Lunar volcanoes--Arago's explanation--Herschel's study of the planets--Satellites of Saturn--Discovery of Uranus--And of its six satellites--Study of Pigott's comet and the comet of 1811--Description of the latter--An uneventful life--Herschel's marriage--His honours--Extracts from his sister's diary--Decaying strength--Herschel removes to Bath--Last days of an astronomer--Illustration of the ruling passion--Death of Sir William Herschel--His achievements CHAPTER IV. Birth and education of Sir John Herschel--Honours at Cambridge--First publication--Continues his scientific studies--His numerous literary contributions--His devotion to his father's reputation--The forty-foot telescope--Herschel's observations on the double and triple stars--On the refraction and polarization of light--Catalogue of nebulae and star-clusters--Voyage to Cape Town--Letter to Miss Herschel--Study of the southern heavens--Return to England--Distinctions conferred upon him--His Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects--His description of volcanoes and earthquakes--Continual changes in the configuration of the earth--Violent earthquakes--Phenomena of volcanic eruptions--In Mexico--In the island of Sumbawa--Herschel's theory of volcanic forces--His character CHAPTER V. Caroline Herschel's devotion to her brother William--Her grief and solitariness at his death--Reflections on the mutability of human things--Aunt and nephew--A parsimonious government--Miss Herschel's gold medal--South on Sir William's discoveries--On Miss Herschel's devotion--Her own astronomical discoveries--Her life at Hanover--Her wonderful memory--Anecdotes of Sir John Herschel--Correspondence between aunt and nephew--The path of duty--Sir John's visit to Miss Herschel--Reminiscences of early years--A nonogenarian--A Christmas in Hanover--Last days of Caroline Herschel--Her death--Her epitaph THE STORY OF THE HERSCHELS. It would appear from the following letter that Sir William Herschel was inadequately rewarded, and that his sister felt this keenly:-- There can be no harm, she says, in telling my own dear nephew that I never felt satisfied with the support your father received towards his undertakings, and far less with the ungracious manner in which it was granted.


id: 6574
author: Noyes, Alfred
title: Watchers of the Sky
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summary:
  Up there, I knew The explorers of the sky, the pioneers Of science, now made ready to attack That darkness once again, and win new worlds. And, if men found new worlds in years to come, These too must join the universal song.


id: 31598
author: Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
title: The Egyptian Cat Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
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summary:
  A snub-nosed revolver was pointed at Rick's midriff_ _ Hands pulled Rick from the saddle_ THE EGYPTIAN CAT MYSTERY CHAPTER I The Winston Plan


id: 29031
author: Holden, Edward S. (Edward Singleton)
title: Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works
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summary:
  In the following account of the life and works of Sir WILLIAM HERSCHEL, I have been obliged to depend strictly upon data already in print--the _Memoir_ of his sister, his own scientific writings and the memoirs and diaries of his cotemporaries. To the extraordinary merits of Mr. HERSCHEL was united considerable acquirement in the superior branches of mechanics and philosophy, and his affinity to his brother, Sir WILLIAM HERSCHEL, was not less in science than in blood.


id: 10202
author: Mitchell, Maria
title: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
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sentence: 3874
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summary:
  Occasionally it happened that work requiring two hours or more to prepare called for little time in the class. Mr. Mitchell was a man of great suavity and gentleness; if left to himself he would never have denied a single request made to him by one of his children.


id: 2298
author: Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell)
title: Great Astronomers
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flesch: 59
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summary:
  He was a diligent reader of works on history, geology, and botany, and his arduous labours were often beguiled by novels, of which, like many other great men, he was very fond. Lagrange and he advanced together in their study of the mechanics of the heavens, at one time perhaps along parallel lines, while at other times they pursued the same problem by almost identical methods.


id: 19309
author: Newcomb, Simon
title: The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
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flesch: 64
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summary:
  Yet, from one point of view, Shepherd made one of the most disastrous failures on record in attempting to carry out great works, while, from another point of view, he is the author of the beautiful Washington of to-day, and entitled to a public statue in recognition of his services. Like General Grant and many great men, he was a man of exceptional sagacity in matters outside the range of his daily concerns.


id: 28613
author: Lodge, Oliver, Sir
title: Pioneers of Science
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  The reason why they were not all visible at first, and why their visibility so rapidly changes, is because they revolve round him almost in the plane of our vision, so that sometimes they are in front and sometimes behind him, while again at other times they plunge into his shadow and are thus eclipsed from the light of the sun which enables us to see them. Those in the plane of the ecliptic (near the zodiac) will be sometimes at right angles to the motion, but at other times will be approached or receded from; hence these will oscillate like pendulums once a year; and intermediate stars will have intermediate motions--that is to say, will describe ellipses of varying excentricity, but all completed in a year, and all with the major axis 20.


id: 10655
author: Airy, George Biddell
title: Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
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summary:
  Never did man enter into the married state from more honourable motives, or from a heart more truly seeking the genuine happiness of that state than Mr Airy, and he will, I trust, find his reward in you from all that a good wife can render to the best of husbands, and his happiness be reflected on yourself. In the course of the following year a very handsome gold medal, specially struck, was transmitted by Count Ouvaroff on the part of the Emperor of Russia, to Mr Airy. 1848 In April I received authority to purchase of Simms an 8-inch object-glass for the new Transit Circle for _Â£300_.


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  ingeniis subsidia debitura est astronomia agnoscent forte posteri vitam utilem innocuam amabilem non minus felici


id: 10202
sid: 3783
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  saisit avec empressement cette occasion d'offrir à votre majesté l'expression de sa considération la plus haute et la plus distinguée


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sid: 3801
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entity:
  examiné les pièces justificatives que vous avez bien voulu me communiquer relativement à cette réclamation


