The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel - Paperbackby Stephen Case (Editor), Lukas M. Verburgt (Editor) It has been said that being scientific in Victorian England meant to be as much like John Herschel as possible. This volume shows readers what it meant to be John Herschel (1792 1871), one of England's most prominent polymaths. Drawing on his published oeuvre and recent scholarship, as well as an immense amount of surviving archival material and correspondence, these essays present the first ever