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Adam Sedgwick Arago autobiographical draft Bodleian Library Britain British Astronomical Association Cambridge career Caroline Herschel Chapman chemical chemistry College colours comet Connexion contemporary correspondence daughter discovery Dr Somerville Dr William Somerville Earth Edinburgh editions England English experiments FRIENDS CHAPTER geologists geology gravitational Greig Heavens Herschel Papers HS16 Herschel to Mary husband INFLUENCE CHAPTER intellectual Jane Marcet John F.W. Herschel Lady Laplace later letter light living London Lord Lyell Maria Edgeworth Mary Griffiths Mary Somerville Mary Somerville's Mary's mathematical mathematician Mechanism Michael Faraday moreover nebulae Newton's nineteenth century observations Observatory optical orbits Oxford Personal Recollections n.2 Physical Geography Physical Sciences planet rays reflecting telescopes Revd Rome Royal Astronomical Society Royal Society Samuel Greig scientific scientists Scottish Sir John Herschel Sir William solar spectrum Somerville Papers spectroscope star clusters Thomas Young Victorian Amateur Astronomer William Buckland William Herschel William Somerville woman women WRITER CHAPTER