INDEX OF NAMES.
N.B.—This index is intended to refer to the proper names occurring in the body of the work only, and not to the Bibliography.
Airy (Sir George),17.
Alison (Sir Archibald),111.
Arago (François),49,81,139.
Artaud (M.),114.
Aubert (Alexander),52,62,63.
Baldwin (Miss),115.
Banks (Sir Joseph),56,58,64.
Bessel (F. W.),127,137.
Blagden (Dr.),57.
Bonaparte (Napoleon),108,111.
Bradley (James),51,153.
Bruhl (Count von),52.
Bulman (Mr.),22,115,116.
Bunsen (Chevalier),12.
Burney (Dr.),82,101,102,104,105,106.
Campbell (Thomas),107.
Cassini (J. D.),51.
Cropley (Mr.),20.
Dalrymple (Mr.),73.
D'Arblay (Madame),100et seq.
Darlington (Earl of),18.
Darquier,51,119.
D'Arrest (H. L.),204.
Dawes (W. R.),200.
De Luc (M.),64.
De Luc (Mrs.),100,102.
Dollond (J.),120.
Engelfield (Sir Harry),57.
Farinelli (Miss),38.
Flaugergues (H.),51,119.
Fleming (Miss),42.
Fourier (J.),124.
Frauenhofer (J.),195.
Galileo,50,135.
George III.,64,77,124,126.
Griesbach (George),63.
Griesbachs (the),62,106.
Hansen (P. A.),142.
Hastings (C. S.),119.
Heberden (Dr.),64.
Helmholtz (H.),188.
Herschel (Abraham) [1651-1718],6.
Herschel (Alexander) [1745-1821],10,12,14,15,35,38,41,57,61,62,66,72,73,114.
Herschel (Benjamin),7.
Herschel (Carolina) [1750-1848],2,10,11,12,16,23,29,[Pg 236]33,41,43,68;
discovers five comets,69,70,78,83,103,105,112,113,114,115.
Herschel (Carolina), herMemoirquoted,2,9,13,23,29,31,34,36,41,57,61,63,64,65,70,74.
Herschel (Dietrich),9,10,11,29,42,114.
Herschel (Eusebius),7.
Herschel (Hans) [circa1600],6.
Herschel (Isaac) [1707-1767],7,8,29.
Herschel (Jacob) [1734-1792],10,11,16,23,30.
Herschel (Sir John Frederick William) [1792-1871],80,103,105,114,126,127,143,203.
Herschel (Lady),80,102,103,105,114.
Herschel (Major John),2.
Herschel (Mrs. Mary Cornwallis),2.
Herschel (Sophia Elizabeth), b. 1733, married Griesbach,10.
Herschel (William), born 1738, November15;10.
oboist in the band of the Guards (1755), and goes to England for the first time, returning in 1756,16.
deserts from the Guards and goes to England (1757),17.
organizes the band of the Durham militia (1760),18.
leaves the band and lives with Dr. Miller,19.
leads the public concerts at Wakefield and Halifax,20.
organist at Halifax (1765),22.
organist of the Octagon Chapel at Bath (1766),24.
his musical writings,26.
studies Smith's harmonies and optics,28.
visits Hanover, August, 1772,32.
hires a small telescope,37.
makes his first telescope (1774),38.
visits Hanover (1775?),42.
1st review of the heavens,39,73.
2d review of the heavens,73.
3d review of the heavens (1783),73.
4th review of the heavens (1785),74.
manufacture of telescopes,40,59,75,77,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127.
moves to 19 New King St., Bath,43.
conducts oratorios of Handel,43.
begins astronomicalmeasures(1779),44.
joins Philosophical Society of Bath,45.
first published scientific writing (1779),46.
first communication to the Royal Society (1780),47.
discovery ofUranus(1781, March 13),49.
its effect on his career,53.
elected a member of the Royal Society (1781), and receives the Copley medal,56.
attempts a thirty-foot reflector,59.
goes to London, 1782 (May, June, July),61.
appointed Royal Astronomer (£200), 1782,67.
removes to Datchet, 1782, August 1,67.[Pg 237]
his assiduity,72,77,79,81.
his mechanical genius,14,41,121.
cost of his telescopes,77.
marries Mrs. John Pitt,néeBaldwin (1783),80.
only child born (1792),80.
removes to Slough (1786),81.
LL.D. (Oxon.), 1786,47.
his account of the discovery ofUranus(1781, March 13),4.
discovers two satellites toUranus, 1787, Jan. 11,84.
discovers two satellites toSaturn, 1789, August-September,125.
invents machines for making reflectors (1788),41.
began forty-foot telescope, 1785, finished it, 1789,121.
biographical letter (1783),3.
list of published portraits of him,232.
value of his sister's assistance to him,34.
letters to Carolina Herschel,61,63,64,114.
his personal character (1786-1800),100et seq.
his relations to his cotemporaries,85,86,87,91,94,95,96,97,98,99.
list of writings relating to him and to his works,225.
his literary skill,45.
examples of his style,83et seq.
failure of health,112et seq.
created a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order (1816),115.
Herschel (Sir William), first president of the Royal Astronomical Society (1821),115.
his will,114.
his death, August 25th, 1822,116.
his epitaph,117.
list of his scientific writings,215.
review of his scientific labors,118.
the improvement of telescopes and apparatus,121.
the relative brightness of the stars; variable stars,130.
researches on double stars,134.
researches on planets and satellites,140.
researches on the nature of the sun,145,186,198.
the motion of the solar system in space,149.
researches on the construction of the heavens,154.
scale of celestial measures; distances of the stars,170.
researches on light, heat, etc.,176.
researches on the dimensions of the stars,193.
on the spectra of the fixed stars,195.
on the variable emission of light and heat from the sun,198.
researches on nebulæ and clusters,202.
Huyghens (C.),50,189.
King George III.,64,77,124,126.
Lacaille (N. L.),156,202.
Lalande (Jerome),28,124,156.[Pg 238]
Lambert (J. H.),153.
Lassell (W.),143.
Lee (Miss),61.
Lichtenberg (Herr),3.
Lind (Dr. and Mrs.),69.
Long (Dr.),135.
Magellan (Herr),3,78.
Maskelyne (Nevil),5,51,57,62,63,150,153.
Mayer (Christian),94,153.
Melloni (M.),186.
Messier (C.),202.
Michell (John),52,94,137,156.
Miller (Dr.),19,20,21,22.
Monson (Mrs.),115.
Moritzen (Anna Ilse), m. Isaac Herschel,7,8.
Napoleon I.,108,111.
Newton (Sir Isaac),189,190,191,192.
Olbers (William),95.
Pabrich (Cappelmeister),7.
Palmerston (Lord),64.
Piazzi (Joseph),75,95.
Pierce (Charles S.),132.
Pigott (J.),119.
Poggendorff (J. G.),188.
Ronzoni (Signor),59.
Rosse (Lord),122,207.
Savary (M.),139.
Secchi (Angelo),195,196.
Scheiner (C.),199.
Schroeter (J. H.),51,77,91,92,93.
Schwabe (H.),201.
Short (James),120.
Smith (Dr. Robert),28.
Snetzler (Herr),20,21.
Struve (Otto von),129.
Thomson (Thomas),95.
Verdet (E.),188.
Wainwright (Dr.),20.
Walsh (Colonel),62.
Watson (Sir William),44,58,60,64,65,66,67,75,76.
Watt (James),106.
Weld (R.),126.
Wilson (Alexander),52,94,146.
Zach (Baron von),69.