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Herschel and himself
However, in addition to his astronomical work, this voyage to a far corner of the British empire also gave Herschel an escape from the pressures under which he found himself in London, where he was one of the most sought-after of all British men of science.
By this point William had established himself as an organist and music teacher at 19 New King Street, Bath, Somerset ( now the Herschel Museum of Astronomy ).
The author of the narrative was supposedly Dr. Andrew Grant, who described himself as the travelling companion and amanuensis of Sir John Herschel, but Dr Grant was fictitious.
They get him off, and he introduces himself as Woodenhead Stallion III ( voiced by Herschel Bernardi ), and he explains how he ended up on there: he was a merry-go-round horse who fell from it.
Others claim that Charles Babbage was the inventor, though Babbage himself reported being introduced to the concept by Herschel and Fitton

Herschel and thought
Herschel originally thought it was a comet or a star.
" Herschel thought catastrophic extinction and renewal " an inadequate conception of the Creator ", and by analogy with other intermediate causes " the origination of fresh species, could it ever come under our cognizance, would be found to be a natural in contradistinction to a miraculous process ".
Later, Herschel thought he had discovered up to six moons ( see below ) and perhaps even a ring.
The most famous such observations were made by Johann Hieronymus Schröter, a respected observer and collaborator of William Herschel, who reported several sightings from 1789 onwards of a bright circular point of light near the southern terminator of Venus, thought to be reflected light from a very tall mountain range or peak, around high.

Herschel and Creator
He was convinced by Paley's Natural Theology which set out the Teleological argument that complexity of " design " in nature proved God's role as Creator, and by the views of Paley and John Herschel that creation was by laws which science could discover, not by intermittent miracles.

Herschel and ",
The word " photograph " was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς ( phos ), meaning " light ", and γραφή ( graphê ), meaning " drawing, writing ", together meaning " drawing with light ".
From the back garden of his house in New King Street, Bath, and using a, ( f / 13 ) Newtonian telescope " with a most capital speculum " of his own manufacture, in October 1779, Herschel began a systematic search for such stars among " every star in the Heavens ", with new discoveries listed through 1792.
In the opening lines of that work, Darwin writes that his intent is " to throw some light on the origin of species — that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers ", referring to Herschel.
Sir John Herschel, in a footnote of the 1845 edition of the Encyclopedia Metropolitana, posed two ideas for the visual correction: the first " a spherical capsule of glass filled with animal jelly ", and " a mould of the cornea " which could be impressed on " some sort of transparent medium ".
* Also of interest is Ron Roizen " Herschel Grynszpan: the fate of a forgotten assassin ", Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol 1 No 2, 1986
For similar reasons, the studio-based drummer / composer Herschel Dwellingham played drums on four of the album's six tracks, replacing Gravatt entirely on three of them: on " Non-Stop Home ", Dwellingham and Gravatt played together, with Gravatt the sole drummer only on " 125th Street Congress ".
The Inuvialuktun word for Herschel Island is " Qikiqtaruk ", which simply means " island ".
" Heaven help us all if we failed to reach Herschel Island ", McKinlay wrote.
John Herschel observed the object again in 1833 when he cataloged it as " h 35 ", and then in 1864 when he cataloged it as " GC 90 " within his General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters.
He also appears in the ESPNU documentary, " Herschel ", about famed Georgia running back Herschel Walker.
The coining of the word " photograph " has been attributed in 1839 to Sir John Herschel based on the Greek φῶς ( phos ), ( genitive: phōtós ) meaning " light ", and γραφή ( graphê ), meaning " drawing, writing ", together meaning " drawing with light ".

Herschel and by
The cluster was given its name by John Herschel.
NGC 2403 was first discovered by the 18th century astronomer William Herschel, who was working in England at the time.
The Blue Planetary was discovered by John Herschel and named for its color's similarity to Uranus, though the nebula is three times larger than the planet.
The shape of the Milky Way as deduced from star counts by William Herschel in 1785 ; the solar system was assumed to be near the center.
The first attempt to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun in it was carried out by William Herschel in 1785 by carefully counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky.
Toward the end of the 18th century, Charles Messier compiled a catalog containing the 109 brightest nebulae ( celestial objects with a nebulous appearance ), later followed by a larger catalog of 5, 000 nebulae assembled by William Herschel.
The existence of infrared radiation was first discovered in 1800 by astronomer William Herschel.
Therefore, the current Gregorian calendar suffices for practical purposes, and the correction suggested by John Herschel of making 4000 a non-leap year will probably not be necessary.
The number of nebulae was then greatly expanded by the efforts of William Herschel and his sister Caroline Herschel.
These natural philosophers saw God as the first cause, and sought secondary causes to explain design in nature: the leading figure Sir John Herschel wrote in 1836 that by analogy with other intermediate causes " the origination of fresh species, could it ever come under our cognizance, would be found to be a natural in contradistinction to a miraculous process ".
He named the newly discovered element after the planet Uranus, ( named after the primordial Greek god of the sky ), which had been discovered eight years earlier by William Herschel.
The first white dwarf discovered was in the triple star system of 40 Eridani, which contains the relatively bright main sequence star 40 Eridani A, orbited at a distance by the closer binary system of the white dwarf 40 Eridani B and the main sequence red dwarf 40 Eridani C. The pair 40 Eridani B / C was discovered by William Herschel on 31 January 1783 ;< sup >, p. 73 </ sup > it was again observed by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve in 1825 and by Otto Wilhelm von Struve in 1851.
In England he went by the English rendition of his name, Frederick William Herschel.
In 1797 Herschel measured many of the systems again, and discovered changes in their relative positions that could not be attributed to the parallax caused by the Earth's orbit.
His theoretical and observational work provided the foundation for modern binary star astronomy ; new catalogues adding to his work were not published until after 1820 by Friedrich Wilhelm Struve, James South and John Herschel.
NGC 2683 is an unbarred spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on February 5, 1788.
Excluding duplicated and " lost " entries, Herschel ultimately discovered over 2400 objects defined by him as nebulae.
Herschel's discoveries were supplemented by those of Caroline Herschel ( 11 objects ) and his son John Herschel ( 1754 objects ) and published by him as General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters in 1864.

Herschel and with
Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.
Babbage, Herschel, and Peacock were also close friends with future judge and patron of science Edward Ryan.
Its first meeting was held at York in 1831 ; and Brewster, along with Babbage and Sir John F. W. Herschel, had the chief part in shaping its constitution.
Herschel Brickell, a critic for the New York Evening Post, lauded Mitchell for the way she, " tosses out the window all the thousands of technical tricks our novelists have been playing with for the past twenty years.
In 1780, Herschel was appointed director of the Bath orchestra, with his sister often appearing as soprano soloist.
Replica in the William Herschel Museum, Bath, Somerset | Bath, of a telescope similar to that with which Herschel discovered Uranus
From 1782 to 1802, and most intensively from 1783 to 1790, Herschel conducted systematic surveys in search of " deep sky " or nonstellar objects with two, and telescopes ( in combination with his favoured 6-inch aperture instrument ).
The term for this class of objects is a partial misnomer that originated ( 1784 or 1785 ) with astronomer William Herschel, because when viewed through his telescope, these objects appeared to be clouds ( nebulae ) that were similar in appearance to Uranus, the planet that had been discovered telescopically by Herschel.
To early observers with low-resolution telescopes, M27 and subsequently discovered planetary nebulae somewhat resembled the giant planets like Uranus, and William Herschel, discoverer of this planet, eventually coined the term ' planetary nebula ' for them, although, as we now know, they are very different from planets.
Luckily Saltzman saw the funny side and pointed out that his real first name was actually Herschel, not Harry, so Saltzman was satisfied with it.
Herschel collaborated with Thomas Maclear, the Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope, and the two families became close friends.
In 1835, the New York Sun newspaper wrote a series of satiric articles that came to be known as the Great Moon Hoax, with statements falsely attributed to Herschel about his supposed discoveries of animals living on the Moon, including batlike winged humanoids.
A discovery by the infrared telescope Herschel in conjunction with other ground based telescopes, determined that black patches of space in certain areas encompassing a star formation were not dark nebulae but actually vast holes of empty space.
As with Mimas's crater Herschel, the impact that created Stickney must have nearly shattered Phobos.
However, this invention was not published until 1827, so this type of telescope has become associated with a similar design by William Herschel, the Herschelian telescope.
The USFL had notable success, including three consecutive Heisman Trophy winners: Georgia running back Herschel Walker and Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie signed with the New Jersey Generals, and Nebraska running back Mike Rozier signed with the Pittsburgh Maulers out of college.

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