7:00 pm - 9:30 pm SPEAKER EVENING – ASTRONOMY, PROFESSIONALISATION and the HERSCHEL FAMILY – Dr EMILY WINTERBURN November 16 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm SPEAKER EVENING – ASTRONOMY, PROFESSIONALISATION and the HERSCHEL FAMILY – Dr EMILY WINTERBURN This talk will look at the astronomical lives of three generations of Herschels and how astronomy changed in that time. The story begins with William and Caroline, discoverer of the planet Uranus and first woman to be published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society respectively. Next comes William's son John, described by some […]
November 16 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm SPEAKER EVENING – ASTRONOMY, PROFESSIONALISATION and the HERSCHEL FAMILY – Dr EMILY WINTERBURN