| Names: | Other: John Frederick Herschel
Other: John Frederick William Herschel
Other: Sir John Frederick William Herschel
Other: Sir John Herschel
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| | Dates: | 1792, 7 March - 1871, 11 May | | Born: | Great Britain, Slough | | Died: | Great Britain, Kent, Collingwood | | Active: | Great Britain | | Gender: | Male |
English scientist, astronomer, artist, writer, innovator with photographic processes and photographer.
The Herschel Family Papers collection at the Harry Ransom Center has created an online inventory of their holdings which include correspondence with William Henry Tox Talbot (March 2012).Preparing biographies
General reading
Crowe, Michael J., 2004, ‘Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, first baronet (1792–1871)‘, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [LL_REF:1820]
Schaaf, Larry, 1980, ‘Herschel, Talbot, and Photography: Spring 1831 and Spring 1839‘, History of Photography, vol.9, no.3, pp.181-204 [LL_REF:324]
Schaaf, Larry J, 1992, Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot and the Invention of Photography, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press) [LL_REF:602]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Schaaf, Larry, 1979, ‘Sir John Herschel's 1839 Royal Society Paper on Photography‘, History of Photography, vol.3, no.1, pp.47-60 [LL_REF:326]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
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Family history
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