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 ...

Mackenzie Cameron,” and adds “Revised throughout by Capt. John Herschel, R.E., in charge Astronomical Branch of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.” ...

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 ...