- HERSCHEL, LUCRETIA
- sister of the succeeding; was his assistant, and made important observations of her own, which were published; retired after her brother's death to Hanover, where she died (1750-1848).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
HERSCHEL, LUCRETIA
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