Today is the bicentenary of the birth of Sir William Huggins who my Observatory is named after.
With Dr Barbara Becker in 2011 at the Royal Astronomical Society.
Jack
This topic was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by Mr Jack Martin.
As Jack, I’m sure, will confirm, Dr Becker wrote an outstanding biography of William and Margaret Huggins, “Unravelling Starlight” (Cambridge 2011.
Well worth a read.
There were two volumes of the Collected Works of Huggins published, and I was lucky to pick up the second in a Norfolk bookshop. Here is the frontispiece and a plate of his Jupiter drawings, for Huggins was also interested in planetary spectra. The book is one of the heaviest in my collection.