Mar 16 2021 15 mins
https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/
Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) https://minervascientifica.co.uk/caroline-herschel/ is celebrated for being the first woman to discover a comet, but she is also important for playing a crucial role in the astronomical and musical careers of her brother William.
SPEAKERS:
Dr Patricia Fara – Science Historian, Emeritus Fellow of Clare College Cambridge
Dr Sian Prosser – Librarian and Archivist Royal Astronomical Society
Dr Anna Lisa Varri – UKRI Future Leaders Fellow University of Edinburgh
Fara discusses Caroline Herschel’s discoveries and the connections with Varri’s work on globular clusters. Herschel’s observation notebooks from the RAS archive and music by Frances M Lynch “Epitaph for a Comet Hunter” are at the heart of the discussion.