Index-map of stars based on Messier, by William Lassell
Reference number: HS/19/239
Date: 1840s
Description
Sketch mapping stars about Messier 17, 18, 13 with scale given for a field of 228 eyepiece, in Lassell's hand. Stars are numbered.
No correspondence between Sir John Herschel and William Lassell is known, but from a letter to George Biddell Airy, we know that Lassell wrote to Herschel in 1848 to report his discovery of the 8th satellite of Saturn.
- Reference number
- HS/19/239
- Earliest possible date
- 1840s
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 1 p.
- Format
- Manuscript
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William Lassell, Index-map of stars based on Messier, by William Lassell, 1840s, HS/19/239, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_19_239/index-map-of-stars-based-on-messier-by-william-lassell, accessed on 25 March 2025
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS -
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 19 Miscellaneous
1821-1870 Reference number: HS/19
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John Frederick William Herschel
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William Lassell
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This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.
Dates: 1807 - 1875
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