HERSCHEL, SIR JOHN , 1ST BARONET

Additional reading A.M. Clerke, The Herschels and Modern Astronomy (1895), and Popular History of Astronomy, 4th ed. (1902); Sir J. Herschel: Scientific Papers, collected and edited under direction of the Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society, 2 vol. (1912); H. Macpherson, Herschel (1919). The standard biography of John Herschel is The Shadow of the Telescope by Gunther Buttmann (1970), which includes a bibliography; Herschel at the Cape (1969) is a pedantic edition of his diaries and letters, 1834-38.