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Pages in category "Discoveries by William Herschel" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page) A. Arp 166; Arp 271; Arp 299; C.
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. This catalogue was later edited by John Dreyer , supplemented with discoveries by many other 19th-century astronomers, and published in 1888 as ...
1781: William Herschel announces discovery of Uranus, expanding the known boundaries of the Solar System for the first time in modern history. 1785: William Withering: publishes the first definitive account of the use of foxglove for treating dropsy. 1787: Jacques Charles: Charles's law of ideal gases.
1833 – William Rowan Hamilton: Hamiltonian mechanics; 1838 – Michael Faraday: Lines of force; 1838 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Carl Friedrich Gauss: Earth's magnetic field [clarification needed] 1842–43 – William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin and Julius von Mayer: Conservation of energy; 1842 – Christian Doppler: Doppler effect
The Herschel 400 catalogue is a subset of William Herschel's original Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, selected by Brenda F. Guzman (Branchett), Lydel Guzman, Paul Jones, James Morris, Peggy Taylor and Sara Saey of the Ancient City Astronomy Club in St. Augustine, Florida, United States c. 1980.
April 27 – British astronomer William Herschel publishes his first list of his discoveries, Catalogue of One Thousand New Nebulae and Clusters of Stars; two additional books are published in 1789 and 1802. [8] May 1 – Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna. May 21 – The trial in the Affair of the Diamond Necklace ends ...
Caroline Herschel began her astronomical career, although somewhat reluctantly at first, by assisting her brother William Herschel. Caroline Herschel is most remembered for her discovery of eight comets and her Index to Flamsteed's Observations of the Fixed Stars (1798). On August 1, 1786, Herschel discovered her first comet, much to the ...
William Herschel splits sunlight through a prism and with a thermometer, measures the energy given out by different colours. He notices a sudden increase in energy beyond the red end of the spectrum , discovering invisible infrared and laying the foundations of spectroscopy.