Papers, etc.

Papers are at the Royal Society, London. His notebooks and a few instruments are at Wellesley College.

Other References: Historical

Becker, Barbara J., Eclecticism, Opportunism, and the Evolution of a New Research Agenda: William and Margaret Huggins and the Origins of Astrophysics (University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995). [abstract]

Becker, Barbara J., “Dispelling the Myth of the Able Assistant: William and Margaret Huggins at Work at the Tulse Hill Observatory,” in H.M. Pycor, et al, eds., Creative Couples in the Sciences (Rutgers Univ. Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1996) [a version appears on the author’s website].

Becker, Barbara J., “Priority, Persuasion, and the Virtue of Perseverance: William Huggins’s Efforts to Photograph the Solar Corona without an Eclipse,” Journal for the History of Astronomy 31, 223-43 (2000).

Becker, Barbara J., “Visionary Memories: William Huggins and the Origins of Astrophysics,” Journal for the History of Astronomy 32, 43-62 (2001).

Becker, Barbara J., “Celestial Spectroscopy: Making Reality Fit the Myth,” Science 301, 1332-33 (2003).

Becker, Barbara J., “Spectroscopy and the Rest of Astrophysics,” in Sandro Petruccioli, ed., Storia della scienza (Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome, 10 vols., 2001–) [excerpts]

Chapman, Allan, The Victorian Amateur Astronomer : Independent Astronomical Research in Britain, 1820-1920 (Wiley, Chichester, 1998).

Chapman, David M.F., “Reflections: Comet Tales: Sir William Huggins and Jean Louis Pons,” JRASC 95, 107-08 (2001).

Clerke, Agnes, A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century (Adam & Charles Black, London, Edinburgh, 1885, 1887, 1893, 1902; reprinted by Scholarly Press, St. Clair Shores, MI, 1977).

Elliott, I., “The Huggins' Sesquicentenary,” Irish Astronomical Journal 26, 65-68 (1999).

Hearnshaw, J. B., “William Huggins und die Anfange der astronomischen Spektroskopie,” Sterne und Weltraum 24, 140-142 (1985).

Hearnshaw, J. B., The Analysis of Starlight (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1986).

Hentschel, Klaus, Mapping the Spectrum: Techniques of Visual Representation in Research and Teaching (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2002).

Hirsh, Richard F., “The Riddle of the Gaseous Nebulae,” Isis 70, 196-212 (1979).

Huggins, William, “Description of an Observatory Erected at Upper Tulse Hill,” MNRAS 16, 175-76 (1856).

Huggins, William, On the Results Of Spectrum Analysis Applied to the Heavenly Bodies: A Discourse Delivered at Nottingham, before the British Association, August 24, 1866 (W. Ladd,London, 1866).

Huggins, William, The Royal Society, or Science in the State and in the Schools (Methuen, London, 1906).

Lienhard, John H., The Engines of Our Ingenuity
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1845.htm

Morgan, J., “The Huggins Archives at Wellesley College, ”Journal for the History of Astronomy 11, 147-52 (1980).

Tenn, Joseph S., “The Hugginses, the Drapers, and the Rise of Astrophysics,” Griffith Observer 50, 10, 2 (1986).

Whiting, Sarah F., “Lady Huggins” [obituary], Ap.J. 42, 1-3 (1915).

Wood, Edmund, “William Huggins: Pioneer of the New Astronomy, ”Astronomy Now 19, no. 5, 73-75 (2005).

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Other References:Scientific

Huggins, William, “Description of an Observatory erected at Upper Tulse Hill, ” MNRAS 16, 175-76 (1856).

Huggins, William, “Note accompanying Drawings of Jupiter, Mars, &c., ” MNRAS 17, 23 (1856).

Huggins, William & William Allen Miller, “On the Spectra of some of the Nebulae, ” Proc. Royal Soc. London 12, 444-45 (1862-63).

Huggins, William, “On the Spectra of some of the Chemical Elements, ” Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London 154, 139-60 (1864).

Huggins, William & W.A. Miller, “On the Spectra of some of the Fixed Stars, ” Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London 154, 413-35 (1864).

Huggins, William, “On the Spectra of some of the Nebulae, ” Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London 154, 437-44 (1864).

Huggins, William, On the Spectrum of the Great Nebula in the Sword-handle of Orion (Strangeways & Walden, London, 1865).

Huggins, William, “Further Observations on the Spectra of Some of the Nebulae, with a Mode of Determining the Brightness of These Bodies, ” Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London 156, 381-97 (1866).

Huggins, William, On the Results of Spectrum Analysis Applied to the Heavenly Bodies: A Discourse Delivered at Nottingham, before the British Association, August 24, 1866 (W. Ladd, London, 1866).

Huggins, William, “Results of some Observations on the Bright Granules of the Solar Surface, with Remarks on the Nature of these Bodies,” MNRAS 26, 260-65 (1866).

Huggins, William, “Further Observations on the Spectra of Some of the Stars and Nebulae, with an Attempt to Determine Therefrom Whether These Bodies are Moving towards or from the Earth, Also Observations on the Spectra of the Sun and of Comet II., 1868, ” Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London 158, 529-64 (1868).

Huggins, William, “On a Possible Method of Viewing the Red Flames without an Eclipse,” MNRAS 29,4-5 (1868) [see also following paper by John Herschel].

Huggins, William, “Note on Mr. De La Rue’s paper, ‘On Some Attempts to Render the Luminous Prominences Visible without the Use of the Spectroscope,’” MNRAS 30,36-37 (1869)

Huggins, W., “The Photographic Spectra of Stars,” Observatory 1, 4 (1877).

Huggins, William, “On the Photographic Spectra of Stars,” Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London 171, 669-90 (1880).

Huggins, William, “On the Photographic Spectrum of the Great Nebula of Orion,” Observatory 5, 106 (1882).

Huggins, William, “On the Corona of the Sun—The Bakerian Lecture,” Proc. Royal Soc. 39, 108-35 (1885).

Huggins, William, “The Photographic Spectrum of the Nebula of Orion,” MNRAS 49, 403-04 (1889).

Huggins, Sir William and Lady, An Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra (William Wesley and Son, London, 1899). [Review by G.E. Hale, Ap.J. 12, 291 (1900).]

Huggins, Sir William and Lady, eds., The Scientific Papers of Sir William Huggins (Wm. Wesley, London, 1909). [Review by E.B. Frost, Ap.J. 32, 323 (1910).]

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