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James South

British astronomer

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collaboration with Herschel

  • John Herschel
    In Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet: Observation of double stars

    …was fortunate to find in James South a collaborator who was able to afford the refined instruments best suited for this work. The catalog that they compiled between 1821 and 1823 and published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1824 earned them the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and…

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