Capitolo 82
To follow Herschel through the rest of his/her life would be only
gives a long catalog of his/her observations without end and discoveries among
the stars. Such catalog would be only interesting to astronomers;
he/she anchors really it would give the principal facts of the existence of Herschel in his
happy house to Mute the skin. Honoured from the world, loved dearly in his really
family, and it absorbed with an impassioned affection for his/her chosen
science, the great astronomer and philosopher grew grey in peace under
his/her really roof, during a the maturity singly placid and kind.
In 1802 he placed in front of the Real Society a new list of five thousand
stars, star-clusters or the other paradisiacal bodies that he had discovered,
and what it formed the great body of his/her personal sums to
astronomic knowledge. The university in Oxford manufactured him Doctor of
Laws, and very late in the life he was knighted at the king--a too much slow
recognition of his/her immense services to science. To the very last one,
however, he worked above with a wish; and, indeed it is one of the great one,
charms of scientific interest that it trains so a man to hold his
faculty on the alarm to a the maturity advanced. In 1819, when Herschel
it was more than eighty, he writes a short note to his/her sister--"Lina, there
it is a great comet. I want you to assist me. Comes to dine and to spend the
day here. If you can come soon after one, we will have time to
you prepare maps and telescopes. I saw his/her situation last night. It has a
long tail." As delicious to find such living interest in the life to the
age of eighty!
On August 25, 1822, this that really great and simple men have passed
street, in his/her eighty-fifth year. You/he/she has been only possible here to draw
out the personal and principal points in his/her career, without thinking a lot
the scientific importance of his later life-long he/she works; but it owes
you are enough to shortly say on this point that the job of Herschel was anybody mere
mechanical star-discovery; it was absolutely philosophical