Chapter

 1 II   | American, related how Sir John Herschel, having been despatched
 2 V    |      of the eighteenth century Herschel, armed with a powerful telescope,
 3 V    |      more than 2,400 feet. But Herschel’s calculations were in their
 4 XX   |         then,” replied Ardan; “Herschel, in 1787, observed a great
 5 XX   | offering any solution of them. Herschel himself never inferred from
 6 XXIV |      The first, constructed by Herschel, was thirty-six feet in
 7 XXVII|        European instruments of Herschel, Rosse, and Foucault, were
 8 XII  |      Yes,” replied Barbicane; “Herschel has put forward an opinion,
 9 XIII | Hevelius, Cassin, La Hire, nor Herschel seemed to have known them.
10 XVIII|   Tycho. They sprang from him. Herschel attributed their brilliancy