by Site Owner | May 17, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Science & Technology
By Michael Hoskin Princeton University Press, $29.95, 238 pages It was a lot for one man to accomplish but William Herschel, the eighteenth century German-born polymath, achieved distinction three times over. Author Michael Hoskin weaves his biography with admiration...