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12340	Anonymous	The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers Sir William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Caroline Herschel			.txt	text/plain	22132	826	62	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.	cache/12340.txt	txt/12340.txt
