The scientific society of his elders and of the contemporaries among whom he grew up was permeated with the leaven of Laplace and Lamarck, of Hutton and of herschel.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
The most noticeable of these are the dazzling white "polar caps" first identified by Sir William herschel in 1784. During the long winter in the northern hemisphere, the cap at the North pole steadily increases in size, only to diminish during the next summer under the hot rays of the sun.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
I should like to have known Jeremiah, the prophet, old man Poggio, Walter Scott, Bonaparte, Hawthorne, Mademoiselle Sontag, Sir John herschel, Hans Andersen.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson