Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer city Steam boat Company ' With good acceleration

' With good acceleration

Part of the town and harbour of Folkestone is visible in the distance

18th October 1969

the Crystal Palace was later moved to Sydenham as part of an amusement park

'Turkey and Grease'

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer city Steam boat Company ' With good accelerationSir 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'.