Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer Product:Fine art poster showing part of Chester Terrace

showing part of Chester Terrace and Cambridge Terrace

Rod Hull and his feathered puppet emu seen here terrorising the shoppers in Glasgow

A 'macaroni' or dandy in powdered wig

30th June 1965

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer Product:Fine art poster showing part of Chester TerraceSir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer, 1867. The son of Sir William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus, John Herschel (1792 1871) 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'.