William Herschel

(1738-1822)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822 NRA: Herschel Sir William (1738-1822) Knight Astronomer Musician DNB: Herschel, William (1738-1822), musician and astronomer LBT ID: WiHersc1822 VIAF ID: 19885773 LOC ID: n79083314	B/BAP: 1738-11-15 DIED: 1822-08-25
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English astronomer and maker of reflecting telescopes; he was the discoverer of the planet Uranus.
REFERENCES TO William Herschel: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 25 July 1802 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 6 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 159 Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, [24 May 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 855a Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IX. 1802-03 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 27 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 1 Found 1: ¶ 18 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1830 Verse 1: p. 855a