Sir John Herschel

Sir John Herschel
noun
English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
Instance Hypernyms: ↑astronomer, ↑uranologist, ↑stargazer

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