The Scientific Legacy of William Herschel

Clifford J. Cunningham did his Ph.D. work in the history of astronomy at James Cook University and the University of Southern Queensland in Australia; he is an astronomer at USQ and a research associate with the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand. He has written or edited 13 books on the history of astronomy, and his papers have been published in many major journals, including Annals of Science, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Culture & Cosmos, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, The Asian Journal of Physics and Renaissance & Reformation.  Asteroid (4276) was named Clifford in his honor by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is the author of a series of books on the discovery of Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta, some titles still forthcoming from Springer.