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DAS BUCH IST IN ENGLISCH!
A BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HERSCHEL
ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS
JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL, ONLY SON OF THE GREAT ASTRONOMER SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL, WAS BORN AT SLOUGH, ENGLAND, ON MARCH 7, 1792, INTO A HOME OF EXTRAORDINARY DISTINCTION. THE HOUSHOLD WAS DESCRBED BY THE ASTRONOMER CHARLES PRITCHARD AS "SINGULARY CALCULATED TO NURTURE INTO GREATNESS ANY CHILD BORN, AS JOHN HERSCHEL WAS, WITH NATURAL GIFTS CAPABLEOF WIDE DEVELOPMENT...
AT THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE THERE WAS THE AGED, OBSERVANT, RETICENTPHILOSIPHER; AND, RARELY FAR AWAY, WAS HIS DEVOTED SISTER, CAROLINE HERSCHEL, WHOSE LABOURS AND WHOSE FAME ARE STILL COGNIZABLE AS A BENEFICENT SATELLITE TO THE BRIGHTER LIGHT OF HER ILLUSTRIOUS BROTHER. IT WAS IN THE COMPANIONSHIP OF THESE REMARKABLE PERSONS, AND UNDER THE SHADOW OF HIS FATHER`S WONDERFUL TELESCOPE, THAT JOHN HERSCHEL PASSED HIS BOYISH YEARS. HE SAW THEM, IN SILENT BUT CEASELESS INDUSTRY, BUSIED ABOUT THINGS WHICH HAD NO APPARENT CONCERN WITH THE WOTLD OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF THAT WELL- KNOWN HOUSE."
AT THE TIME OF HIS SON`S BIRTH FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1738 - 1822) WAS AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS ASTRONOMICAL CAREER, WHICH HAD TAKEN HIM FROM THE MOST HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO THE PINNACLE OF FAME. THE GREAT ADVANTAGES ENJOYED BY HIS SON- AN EXCELLENT EDUCATION WHICH PROVIDED THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A BRILLIANT CAREER, COMBINED WITH A CAREFULLY NURTURED AND WHOLLY UNTROUBLED YOUTH- HAD BEEN LACKING IN THE CASE OF THE FATHER....
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ES KANN ABGEHOLT ODER ZUGESANDT WERDEN, WOBEI DAS PORTO VOM KÄUFER ÜBERNOMMEN WERDEN MUSS!
BITTE BEACHTEN SIE AUCH MEINE ANDEREN ANGEBOTE, VIELLEICHT IST JA NOCH ETWAS FÜR SIE MIT DABEI!
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