Search Results - 1738-1822

On the discovery of four additional satellites of the Georgium Sidus: The Retrograde motion of its old Satellites announced; and the cause of their disappearance at certain distances from the Planet explained. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical Transactions

On the nature and construction of the sun and fixed stars: By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions

Observations of a quintuple belt on the planet Saturn: also, an account of some particulars observed during the late eclipse of the sun: and also, on the rotation of the planet Saturn upon its axis. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions

Observations on the planet Venus: By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions

On the satellites of the planet Saturn, and the rotation of its ring on an axis: By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions

Remarks on the new comet. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, Nov. 16, 1786

Catalogue of one thousand new nebulæ and clusters of stars: By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, April 27, 1786

Catalogue of double stars: By William Herschel, Esq. F. R. S. Read at the Royal Society, December 9, 1784

Jacobi Dickson fasciculus plantarum cryptogamicarum Britanniae

On the parallax of the fixed stars: Catalogue of double stars; description of a lamp-micrometer; and investigation of magnifying powers. By Mr. William Herschel, F.R.S. read at the Royal Society December 6, 1781, and in January and March 1782

On the power of penetrating into space by telescopes: with a comparative determination of the extent of that power in natural vision, and in telescopes of various sizes and constructions; illustrated by select observations. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions

Investigation of the powers of the prismatic colours to heat and illuminate objects, &c: Experiments on the Refrangibility of the invisible rays of the sun. Experiments on the solar, and on the Terrestrial Rays that occasion heat, &c. By William Herschel, LL. D. F. R. S. being a series of papers read at the Royal Society, and published in the Philosophical Transactions

Observations of the changeable brightness of the satellites of Jupiter: and of the variation in their apparent magnitudes; with a determination of the time of their rotatory motions on their axes. To which is added, a measure of the diameter of the second satellite, and an estimate of the comparative size of all the four. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions

A third catalogue of the comparative brightness of the stars: with an introductory account of an index to Mr. Flamsteed's observations of the fixed stars, contained in the second volume of the Historia Coelestis. To which are added, several useful results derived from that index. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions

On the periodical star [alpha] Herculis: with remarks tending to establish the rotatory motion of the stars on their axes. To which is added a second catalogue of the comparative brightness of the stars. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions

On the method of observing the changes that happen to the fixed stars: with some remarks of the stability of the light of our sun. To which is added, catalogue of comparative brightness, for ascertaining the permanency of the Lustre of stars. By William Herschel, LL. D. F. R. S. From the Philosophical Transactions

Description of a forty-feet reflecting telescope: By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From The philosophical transactions

Account of the discovery of a sixth and seventh satellite of the planet Saturn: with remarks on the construction of its ring, its atmosphere, its rotation on an axis, and its spheroidical figure. By William Herschel, LL.D. F. R. S. From the Philosophical transactions. Read at the Royal Society, November 12, 1789

Catalogue of a second thousand of new nebul? and clusters of stars: with a few introductory remarks on the construction of the heavens. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions

On the Georgian planet and its satellites: By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions