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INDEX 



Herschel, Sir William, birth, 3. 

 ,, father of, 6. 

 ,, mother's foolishness, 8, 



9, 18, 21. 



,, schooldays of, 11. 

 ,, knowledge of languages, 



12. 

 j, musical and mechanical 



ability, 13. 

 ,, astronomy, 14. 

 ,, visit to England, 16. 

 ,, flight from Hanover, 



19. 

 ,, engagements in England, 



24, 257. 



visit to Italy, 26. 

 ,, removes to Bath, 27. 

 ,, gives concerts there, 27, 



258. 

 appointed to Octagon 



Chapel, 28, 258. 

 ,, race for fame, 32. 

 ,, work in Bath, 35. 

 drought by day, frost by 



night, 39. 



,, discovery of, 47. 

 ,, aims in observing, 53. 

 ,, length of earth's day, 66. 

 ,, "AccountofaComet,"68. 

 ,, Uranus, 73. 

 ,, Catalogue of Double 



Stars, 80. 

 ,, contributions to Phil. 



Trans., 81. 



,, Copley Medal, 84. 

 ,, public opinion, 85. 

 ,, summoned to court, 86. 

 ,, "showman of the 



heavens," 89. 

 ,, no honour bestowed till 



1816, 94. 

 ,, encouragement of science, 



96. 

 ,, disparagement of his 



work, 101, 222. 

 ,, King's Astronomer, 103. 

 ,, polishing his great 



mirror, 112. 



,, his ingenuity, 117. 

 ,, accidents, 119. 



Herschel, requiem of telescope, 125. 

 ,, reviews of the heavens, 



129. 

 ,, simplicity and kindness, 



209, 259. 



,, failing health, 210. 

 ,, religious sentiments, 215. 

 ,, Arago's eulogium, 217. 

 Huggins, Sir William, 229. 



Jupiter, 175. 

 Keats, 91. 



Laboratories of universe, 139. 

 Lalande, 40, 51, 58, 77, 88, 105. 

 Linley, Pump-room band, 27, 258. 

 ,, his daughter's singing, 28. 



Mars, 173. 



Maskelyne, honoured by the 



French, 86. 

 Mercury, 168. 

 Messier, 111. 

 Micrometer, 80. 

 Milky Way, 143, 233. 

 Moon, mountains, 54. 



,, volcanoes, 56. 



,, atmosphere, 60. 

 More, Hannah, 29. 



Napoleon, 207. 



Nebulae, relative antiquity, 147. 

 ,, resolvable and gaseous, 



228. 



Nebular hypothesis, 235. 

 Newton, encouragement to, 97. 



,, his telescope, 107. 

 Niemeyer, 26. 



Olbers, discovery of asteroids, 72. 

 , , absorption of light by ether, 

 147. 



Pfaff, 248. 



Piazzi, 72, 119. 



Points and blunts, war of, 51. 



Pringle, Sir John, 51. 



Rosse, Lord, 121. 



