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Selected Correspondence of William Huggins

Editor: Barbara J Becker, University of California, Irvine
The Pickering Masters 2 Volume Set: c.1100pp: June 2014 978 1 84893 415 3: 234x156mm: 275/$495

William Huggins (18241910) was celebrated in his lifetime as the father of astrophysics. Huggins was also the author of numerous groundbreaking articles documenting his use of the spectroscope to analyze the light from celestial bodies. From the earliest days of his career Huggins was regularly in contact with other scientists, including astronomers, chemists, physicists, mathematicians and the makers of scientific instruments. Correspondents include Ernest Rutherford (pioneer of atomic physics), Thomas Romney Robinson (director of the Armagh Observatory), George Gabriel Stokes and Joseph Larmor (each served as Physical Secretary of the Royal Society), Thomas and Howard Grubb (father and son, makers of telescopes in Dublin), David Gill (director of the Royal Observatory at the Cape in South Africa) and George Ellery Hale (director of the Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory and founder of many others). This edition includes over 1,000 letters and excerpts from Hugginss observatory notebooks. The documents, the majority of which are previously unpublished, reveal the important role that Huggins played in the development of astrophysics. Editorial apparatus situates the letters in their scientific and historical context. The edition will be of interest to those researching astrophysics, astronomy, the history of instruments and the history of science more generally.

William Huggins, c.1905 Proceedings of the Royal Society (1910)

Presents over 1,000 letters sourced from archives around the world Documents come from over twenty archives from around the world Includes correspondence from significant figures of the time, including Francis Galton, David Gill and Charles Darwin Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, volume introductions and explanatory notes A biographical index appears in the second volume

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Correspondents:
William de Wiveleslie Abney; Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland; George Biddell Airy; Edwin Ashworth; Edward Emerson Barnard; Thomas George Bonney; William Henry Bragg; John Brashear; Robert Bunsen; Charles Pritchard Butler; William Wallace Campbell; Hugh Culling Eardley Childers; William Henry Mahoney Christie; Robert Bellamy Clifton; Andrew Ainslie Common; William Crookes; Charles Darwin; George Darwin; Warren de la Rue; Lucien Delloye; James Dewar; Anna Palmer Draper; Henry Draper; John William Draper; Frank Watson Dyson; John Evans; George Francis FitzGerald; Williamina Fleming; Richard Samuel Floyd; Michael Foster; Edward Frankland; Francis Galton; David Gill; Harry Manley Goodwin; James Graham; John Walter Gregory; Howard Grubb; Thomas Grubb; George Ellery Hale; Lord George Francis Hamilton; Robert Harrison; Lt John Herschel; John F W Herschel; Edward Singleton Holden; Margaret Lindsay Huggins; Pierre Jules Janssen; Lucien Jouvaud; James Keeler; Alfred Bray Kempe; Samuel Kinns; Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues; Edward Ball Knobel; Joseph Larmor; H A Lawrance; George Downing Liveing; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Clements Markham; Edward Walter Maunder; James Clerk Maxwell; William Allen Miller; Julia Montefiore; James Nasmyth; Hugh Frank Newall; Robert Stirling Newall; Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse; Edward Charles Pickering; William Henry Pickering; Charles Pritchard; Richard Anthony Proctor; William Ramsay; Arthur Cowper Ranyard; Ira Remsen; George Henry Richards; George Willis Ritchey; Henry Enfield Roscoe; Henry Augustus Rowland; A W Rcker; Ernest Rutherford; Edward Sabine; Samuel Arthur Saunder; Archibald Henry Sayce; John Martin Schaeberle; Arthur Schuster; Thomas Jefferson Jackson See; William Sharpey; William Robertson Smith; Charles Piazzi Smyth; Mary Somerville; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; Edward James Stone; Alexander Strange; John William Strutt, Lord Raleigh; Otto Wilhelm von Struve; Anna Swanwick; Henry Richard Tedder; James Francis Tennant; William Thomson, Lord Kelvin; David Peck Todd; Herbert Hall Turner; Augustus Desire Waller; William Henry Wesley; Walter White; Sarah Frances Whiting; Charles Ray Woods; Charles Augustus Young; Fedor Rudolph Ziel

Archives consulted:
Birr Castle Bodleian Library Cambridge University Manuscripts Room Dartmouth College Harvard University Huntington Library Lick Observatory National Library of Ireland New York Public Library Royal Astronomical Society Royal Dublin Society Royal Institution Royal Society Smithsonian Institution, Museum of American History South African Astronomical Observatory The Johns Hopkins University University of Exeter University of London University of Massachusetts, Amherst US Naval Observatory Wellesley College Yale University

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