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Herschel/Box 2/James 510
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- 1839 (Much of the work is undated.) (Creation)
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paper
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Biographical history
Astronomer; son of Sir William Herschel; senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman, 1813; subsequently fellow of St John's College, Cambridge; MA 1816; helped to found Analytical Society, Cambridge, 1813; secretary to Royal Society 1824-7; president of Astronomical Society, 1827-32; created baronet, 1838; president of British Association, 1845; master of the Mint, 1850-5. Major contribution to astronomy through the discovery and cataloguing of many double stars, work on 'light' and early work on photographical process. Buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Contents:
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Lunar Theory
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Determination of unknown functions
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A few pages on Law of Refraction, apparently from the History of Math article, or possibly from 'isoperimetrical problem' as these two sheets appear to have been one.
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Isoperimetrical problem
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On the chemical action of the rays of the solar spectrum
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Photographic MSS, with three pages of 5 interleaved in one spot.
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Spectra (emission? absorption?) of photographic papers
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Notes on the art of photography or the application of the chemical rays of light to the purposes of pictorial representation. (13 leaves, 1839)