The The Shadow of the Telescope - A Biography of John Herschel

G-nther Buttman''s The Shadow of the Telescope was the firstfull-length biography of the nineteenth-century astronomer, Sir John Herschel.First published in German, this intriguing text chronicles the life and worksof the third of the Herschel astronomers, the son of William and the nephew ofCaroline. John was extremely intelligent, graduating as Senior Wrangler in thenotoriously difficult Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge University. While lessfamous than his father and aunt, he nevertheless went on to make importantdiscoveries in the field of astronomy. He named seven moons of Saturn and fourmoons of Uranus, the planet his father had only recently discovered.