Royal Astronomical Society Herschel Archive [RAS] W.7/8.
2.
Herschel was ‘headhunted’ from Yorkshire in 1766 to become organist at the Octagon Chapel then building in Bath as a private commercial enterprise with joint owners. In the autumn of 1776 one of the owners bought out his partner and installed a new preacher and a new organist. Either then or later Herschel became organist at the less-prestigious Margaret's Chapel, named for Margaret Garrard, Lady of the Manor, and he remained in post there until he left Bath for Windsor in 1782. Michael Hoskin, Caroline Herschel: Priestess of the New Heavens (Sagamore Beach, MA, 2013), 48.
3.
William Herschel to John Herschel, 8 Nov. 1813, Herschel Family Archives.
4.
John Herschel to J. W. Whitaker, 2 July 1813, St John's College, Cambridge.
5.
Annotation by John, William Herschel to John Herschel, 8 Nov. 1813, Herschel Family Archives.
6.
William Herschel to John Herschel, 8 Nov. 1813, Herschel Family Archives.
7.
8.
RAS W.2/2.4.
9.
RAS W. 7/15, 269–70.
10.
RAS W.2/1.1.
11.
Para. 56.
12.
RAS W.2/1.1, f. 7.
13.
Para. 60.
14.
RAS W.2/1.1, f. 7.
15.
RAS W.2/1.1, f. 8.
16.
RAS W.2/1.1, f. 9.
17.
RAS W.2/1.1, f. 10.
18.
LubbockConstance A., The Herschel chronicle (Cambridge, 1933), 77.
19.
Nevil Maskelyne to William Watson, Jr (for Herschel), 17 May 1780, RAS W.1/13.M.13.
20.
William Watson, Jr, to William Herschel, 5 June 1780, RAS W.1/13.W.7.
21.
DreyerJ. L. E. (ed.), The scientific papers of Sir William Herschel (London, 1912), i, pp. xc-xci, letter from William Herschel to Nevil Maskelyne, 12 June 1780.
22.
HerschelWilliam, “Astronomical observations relating to the mountains of the Moon”, Philosophical transactions, lxx (1780), 507–26.
23.
HerschelWilliam, “On nebulous stars, properly so called”, Philosophical transactions, lxxxi (1791), 71–88, p. 84.
24.
HerschelWilliam, “On the construction of the heavens”, Philosophical transactions, lxxv (1785), 213–66, p. 258.
25.
WilsonAlexander, “Observations on the solar spots”, Philosophical transactions, lxiv (1774), 1–30.
26.
Ibid., 20.
27.
HerschelWilliam, “On the nature and construction of the sun and fixed stars”, Philosophical transactions, lxxxv (1795), 46–72.
28.
Ibid., 63.
29.
A good account of Herschel's theories of the constitution of the Sun is to be found in Angus Armitage, William Herschel (London, 1962), 51–6.
30.
HerschelWilliam, “Observations tending to investigate the nature of the Sun …”, Philosophical transactions, xci (1801), 265–318.
