Obituary Notice of Miss Caroline Lucretia Herschel, Astronomische Nachrichten, No. 629

by Caroline Lucretia Herschel

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“Arduous…as these occupations must appear, — especially when it is considered that her brother's observations were always carried on circumstances permitting till day break, without regard to season, and indeed chiefly in the winter, — they proved insufficient to exhaust her activity. In their intervals she found time both for actual astronomical observations of her own and for the execution of more than one work of great extent and utility.”

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