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THE CENTURY SCIENCE SERIES.
Edited by SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.
THE HERSCHELS
AND
MODERN ASTRONOMY
The Century Science Series.
EDITED BY
SIR HENRY E. ROSCOE, D.C.L., F.R.S., M.P.
John Dalton and the Rise of Modern Chemistry.
By Sir Henry E. Roscoe, F.R.S.
Major Rennell, F.R.S., and the Rise of English Geography.
By Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S., Presidentof the Royal Geographical Society.
The Herschels and Modern Astronomy.
By Miss Agnes M. Clerke, Author of “A PopularHistory of Astronomy during the 19th Century,” &c.
In Preparation.
Justus von Liebig: his Life and Work.
By W. A. Shenstone, Science Master in Clifton College.
Michael Faraday: his Life and Work.
By Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S.
Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics.
By R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge.
Charles Lyell: his Life and Work.
By Rev. Professor T. G. Bonney, F.R.S.
Humphry Davy.
By T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., Principal Chemist of theGovernment Laboratories.
Pasteur: his Life and Work.
By Armand Ruffer, Director of the British Institute ofPreventive Medicine.
Charles Darwin and the Origin of Species.
By Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., Hope Professorof Zoology in the University of Oxford.
Hermann von Helmholtz.
By A. W. Rücker, F.R.S., Professor of Physics in theRoyal College of Science, London.
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SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL.
Ætat. 50.
(From Abbott’s painting in the National Portrait Gallery.)