Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . educated at Eton and St Johns,Cambridge, where in 1813 he was senior wranglerand first Smiths prizeman. In 1822 he appliedhimself especially to astronomy, and helped tore-examine the nebula; and clusters of stars inhis fathers catalogues ; reporting to the RoyalSociety observations on 525 nebula;, clusters of 244 Sir John Herschel stars, and double stars not noticed by his treatises on Soun
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . educated at Eton and St Johns,Cambridge, where in 1813 he was senior wranglerand first Smiths prizeman. In 1822 he appliedhimself especially to astronomy, and helped tore-examine the nebula; and clusters of stars inhis fathers catalogues ; reporting to the RoyalSociety observations on 525 nebula;, clusters of 244 Sir John Herschel stars, and double stars not noticed by his treatises on Sound and Light appeared in theEncyclopcedia Mctropolitaim (1830-31) ; his Astro-nomy 1831) and Natural Philosophy in LardnefsCyc/opu-dia. The Astronomy was the most suc-cessful attempt that had till then been made tosimplify and popularise the study of the science,and was long the standard college manual. In1834 he visited the Cape to examine the southerncelestial hemisphere ; the results (1847) completeda surxey of the heavens begun in 1825. Madesuccessively a knight, a baronet, and a ofOxford, he was Master of the Mint in 1850-55, andwas buried in Westminster Abbey. His articles on. ISAAC TAYLOR. From the Drawing by Josiah Gilbert in the National Portrait Gallery. Meteorology, Physical Geography, and the Tele-scope, contributed to the Encydopcedia Britannica,were published separately; and his Popidar Lecturesand Collected Addresses made him well known tothe general reader. A distinguished chemist,he attained important results in photography andmade valuable researches on the undulatory theoryof light. He had a lively interest in poetry, andhe translated from Schiller and from the Miss Clarkes The Hcrschcls (1896). Isaac Taylor (1787-1865), a copious andpopular author on religious philosophy and othersubjects, was the son of Isaac of Ongar (seepage 174), and assisted him while he was yet anengraver. His bent, however, was literary; heread largely in patristic the
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