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Naming the Universe

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It was the autumn of 1846, and John Herschel (1792-1871), the British astronomer and natural philosopher, was not sleeping well. He had just put his foot into the century's most acrimonious astronomical dispute, and now he was being abused by those on both sides of the matter—his British colleagues on the one hand, and French astronomers and their European allies on the other. By the 1840s, Herschel, who was first knighted and later made a baronet by Queen Victoria, was one of the astronomical community's leading lights. As the son of William Herschel (1738-1822)—the musician-turned-astronomer who in 1781 discovered the first planet since antiquity and neatly doubled the known size of the Solar System—John had inherited his father's massive telescopes and method of sweeping the night sky for new objects beyond the Solar System. He had also inherited and extended his father's legacy to become the de facto spokesman of Victorian science. John Herschel's treatise on the scientific life, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830), was a contemporary best seller, and influenced a generation of thinkers who followed after him, from John Stuart Mill to Charles Darwin. Indeed, as the'historian of science Walter F. (later Susan Faye) Cannon quipped in 1961, being scientific in the Victorian era meant simply to "be as much like [John] Herschel as possible."
机译:这是1846年秋天,约翰·赫歇尔(1792-1871),英国天文学家和自然哲学家,并没有睡得好。他刚刚把他的脚放入世纪最诙谐的天文纠纷,现在他被那些在这一问题的双方虐待 - 他的英国同事一方面,以及法国天文学家及其欧洲盟友。到了1840年代,赫歇尔,曾经是女王维多利亚女王的一个名字,是天文社区领先的灯光之一。作为William Herschel的儿子(1738-1822) - 在1781年的音乐家转向天文学家发现了自古,并且整齐地翻了一番,太阳系的已知尺寸 - 约翰继承了他父亲的大规模望远镜和清扫方法在太阳系之外的新物体的夜空。他也遗产并扩大了他父亲的遗产,成为维多利亚科学的事实上发言人。 John Herschel对科学生活的论文,关于自然哲学研究的初步话语(1830年),是一个当代最佳卖家,并影响了一代思想家,从John Stuart Mill到Charles Darwin。事实上,正如1961年苏尔特F.(后来Susan Faye)大炮的科学博物馆的那样,维多利亚时代的科学意味着“尽可能像[John] Herschel一样。”

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    《American Scientist》 |2020年第3期|170-175|共6页
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    Stephen Case;

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