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1966, 1987
    Patrick O’Brian, Joseph Banks, Harvill Press, 1987
    Sydney Parkinson, A Journal of a Voyage in the South Seas, 1773
    Roy Porter, ‘The Exotic as Erotic’, in Exoticism in the Enlightenment, edited by G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter, Manchester UP, 1989
    Edward Smith, Sir Joseph Banks, 1911
    Daniel Solander, Collected Correspondence, edited by Edward Duyker and Per Tingbrand, Scandinavia UP, 1995
    William and Caroline Herschel
    Angus Armitage, Sir William Herschel, Nelson, 1962
    Helen Ashton, I Had a Sister, L. Dickson, 1937
    John Bonnycastle, Introduction to Astronomy in Letters to his Pupil, 1786 (expanded editions 1788, 1811, 1822)
    Claire Brock, The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel’s Astronomical Ambition, Icon Books, Cambridge, 2007
    Lord Byron, Selected Poems, edited by A.S.B. Glover, Penguin, 1974
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Collected Letters, 6 vols, edited by E.L. Griggs, OUP, 1956-71
    Michael J. Crowe, Modern Theories of the Universe, Dover, 1994
    Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden, A Philosophical Poem with Notes, 1791
    James Ferguson, Astronomy Explained, with a Preface by David Brewster, 1811
    The Herschel Chronicle, edited by Constance A. Lubbock (his granddaughter), 1933
    Caroline Herschel, Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel, edited by Mrs John Herschel, Murray, 1876; Cambridge UP, 1935
    Caroline Herschel, Caroline Herschel’s Autobiographies, edited by Michael Hoskin, Science History Publications Ltd, Cambridge, 2003
    William Herschel, Scientific Papers, 2 vols, edited by J.E. Dreyer, Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society, 1912
    Michael Hoskin, William Herschel and the Construction of the Heavens, Osbourne, 1963
    Michael Hoskin, Stellar Astronomy, Science History Publications, 1982
    Michael Hoskin, The Herschel Partnership as Viewed by Caroline, Science History Publications, Cambridge, 2003
    Derek Howse, Nevil Maskelyne, CUP, 1989
    Edwin Hubble, The Realm of the Nebulae, Constable, 1933
    John Keats, Complete Poems, edited by John Barnard, Penguin, 1973
    Henry Mayhew, James Ferguson, 1817
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley’s Prose, edited by David Lee Clark, Fourth Estate, 1988
    Peter Sime, William Herschel, 1890
    Adam Smith, The Principles of Philosophical Enquiries, Illustrated by the History of Astronomy, Edinburgh, 1795
    Frances Wilson, The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, Faber, 2008
    Edward Young, Night Thoughts (poem), 1744-45
    S PECIALIST A RTICLES
    J.A. Bennett, ‘The Telescopes of William Herschel’ (with illustrations), Journal for the History of Astronomy 7, 1976
    Michael Hoskin, ‘On Writing the History of Modern Astronomy’, Journal for the History of Astronomy 11, 1980
    Michael Hoskin, ‘Caroline Herschel’s Comet Sweepers’, Journal for the History of Astronomy 12, 1981
    Simon Schaffer, ‘Herschel on Matter Theory and Planetary Life’, Journal for the History of Astronomy 11, 1980
    Simon Schaffer, ‘Uranus and Herschel’s Astronomy’, Journal for the History of Astronomy 12, 1981
    Simon Schaffer, ‘Herschel in Bedlam: Natural History and Stellar Astronomy’, British Journal for the History of Science 13, 1986
    Simon Schaffer, ‘On the Nebular Hypothesis’, in History, Humanity and Evolution, edited by J.R. Moore, CUP, 1988
    The Balloonists
    Thomas Baldwin, Airopaidia, 1786 (the narrative of a solo voyage in Lunardi’s balloon, including the first aerial sketches made from a balloon basket)
    Henry Beaufoy, Account of an Ascent with James Sadler, from Hackney, 1811, British Library catalogue B.507 (I)
    Henry Beaufoy, Two Balloon Scrapbooks of Henry Beaufoy, 1783-1843 (Item 57 in the McCormack Collection), Princeton University, USA
    David Bourgeois, L’Art de Voler, Paris, 1784
    Catalogue of Well-Known Balloon Prints and Drawings, Sotheby’s, 1962
    Tiberius Cavallo FRS, The History and Practice of Aerostation, 1785
    William Cowper, The Task (poem), in Letters and Poems, 1785
    Le Départ du Rêve, Grand Palais exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1985
    Erasmus