|
See also: Sir See also: William
See also: Herschel, See also: English astronomer, was See also: born at See also: Hanover on the 15th of See also: November 1738
.
His See also: father was a musician employed as hautboy player in .the Hanoverian guard
.
The See also: family had quitted Moravia for See also: Saxony in the early See also: part of the 17th century on account of religious troubles, they themselves being Protestants
.
Herschel's earlier See also: education was necessarily of a very limited character, chiefly owing to the warlike commotions of his country; but being at all times an indomitable student, he, by his own exertions, more than repaired this deficiency
.
He became a very skilful musician, both theoretical and See also: practical; while his attainments as a self-taught mathematician were fully adequate to the See also: prosecution of those branches of astronomy which he so eminently advanced and adorned
.
Whatever he did he did methodically and thoroughly; and in this methodical thoroughness See also: lay the secret of what Arago very properly termed his astonishing scientific success
.
|
|
|
[back] SIR F HERSCHEL |
[next] BART SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.