Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel by Caroline He... - 9781108013666

Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline HerschelAuthor(s): Caroline Herschel, Mary Cornwallis Herschel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108013666, 978-1108013666\nSynopsis\nMemoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel [tel] contains the letters and diaries of the celebrated astronomer Caroline Herschel [tel], edited by her niece, Mary Herschel. Caroline was born in Hanover to a musician father and an illiterate mother who did not want her daughter to be educated. However Caroline's brother William, an organist employed in Bath, persuaded their mother to allow Caroline to join him there. She left for England in 1772 to live with William, to whom she remained devoted all of her life. In Bath, William turned towards telescope-making and astronomy, to such effect that in 1781 he discovered the planet Uranus. He was appointed 'the King's astronomer' in 1782, and Caroline, trained by William, contin.