The historian of astronomy Agnes Clerke tells the story of the Herschel family: William, the Hanoverian musician at Bath who discovered Uranus and became the King’s astronomer; his sister Caroline, who left needlework and millinery to become a comet-hunter in her own right; and William’s son John, who mapped the southern skies.
A compact, authoritative family biography for anyone interested in how modern astronomy began. Download the free EPUB.