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John Frederick Herschel (1792-1871), English astronomer and scientist, 1847.
John Frederick Herschel (1792-1871), English astronomer and scientist, 1847. A photograph off Herschel taken when he was Master of the Mint (1850-1855) showing him holding a florin (2 shilling piece) which was being introduced with the idea of decimalization of the coinage. The son of Sir William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus, John Herschel followed his father in astronomical research, mapping the sky of the southern hemisphere and cataloguing many previously unseen stars. He was also a pioneer photographer, and coined the photographic terms 'negative and 'positive'.
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AR917665
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Image
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Public
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2815px × 3715px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
Ann Ronan Pictures
Astronomer
Astronomy
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Britain
British
COINAGE
country
decimalisation
England
English
FINANCE
Florin
Furniture
Herschel
JOB
LOCATION
Male
Man
Master of the Mint
Men
Money
Monochrome
NINETEENTH CENTURY
OCCUPATION
People
Photograph
Portrait
Print Collector1
PROFESSION
Science
Scientist
Seated
Sir John Frederick William
Sir John Frederick William Herschel
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