These 10 astronomy books have had a significant impact not ... but there was no single comprehensive summary of astronomy. Sir John Herschel’s 1849 book, Outlines of Astronomy, filled this ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching “light-houses of the skies” campaign. Jonathan L. Stolz is a resident of ...

Nearby is the grave of his son Sir John Frederick William Herschel, mathematician and astronomer ... and he is known as the father of modern stellar astronomy. He was knighted in 1816. He married ...