Definition of Sir john herschel

1. Noun. English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir John Herschel

Sir James Matthew Barrie
Sir James Murray
Sir James Paget
Sir James Paul McCartney
Sir James Young Simpson
Sir John Carew Eccles
Sir John Cockcroft
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Sir John Everett Millais
Sir John Falstaff
Sir John Frederick William Herschel
Sir John Gielgud
Sir John Hawkins
Sir John Hawkyns
Sir John Herschel
Sir John Ross
Sir John Suckling
Sir John Tenniel
Sir John Vanbrigh
Sir Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph John Thomson
Sir Joseph Paxton
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Lancelot
Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier
Sir Leonard Hutton
Sir Leonard Woolley
Sir Leslie Stephen
Sir Martin Frobisher

Literary usage of Sir john herschel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Not far from these, Sir Charles Lyell, the distinguished geologist; Sir John Herschel, the eminent astronomer ; Charles Darwin, the great naturalist; ..."

2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Not far from these, Sir Charles Lyell, the distinguished geologist; Sir John Herschel, the eminent astronomer; Charles Darwin, the great naturalist; ..."

3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1862)
"Letter from sir john herschel to Mr. Hind on the Disappearance of a Nebula in Coma Berenices. (Communicated ly permission of sir john herschel. ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"In so characterizing sir john herschel we are not forgetting that others in our ... But, as an astronomer in the true sense of the term, sir john herschel ..."

5. A Manual of Photography by Robert Hunt (1854)
"CHAPTER V. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES ON PAPER OF sir john herschel. THE researches of sir john herschel have been principally directed to the investigation ..."

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