Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer Product:Fine art poster 30th June 1965

30th June 1965

XXXIII from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon

A satire against the approaching dissolution of the East India Company

Illustrations showing microscopic views of: the surface of a piece of seaweed (Fig

A 'macaroni' or dandy in powdered wig

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer Product:Fine art poster 30th June 1965Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer, 1867. The son of Sir William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus, John Herschel (1792 1871) followed his father in astronomical research, mapping the sky of the southern hemisphere and cataloguing many previously unseen stars. He was also a pioneer photographer, and coined the photographic terms 'negative and 'positive'.