01621cam a2200325 4500 607499188 TxAuBib 20161107120000.0 151222s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015047006 9781632861870 hardcover : acidfree paper 1632861879 hardcover : acidfree paper 9781632861894 softcover 1632861895 softcover DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib Pipkin, John, author. The blind astronomer's daughter : a novel / John Pipkin. New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2016. 460 pages ; cm. In late eighteenth century Ireland, Caroline Ainsworth learns that her life is not what it seems when her astronomer father, Arthur, throw himself from his rooftop observatory. Caroline had often assisted her father with his observations in pursuit of an unknown planet; when rival stargazer William Herschel discovered Uranus, Caroline could only watch helplessly as unremitting jealousy drove Arthur to madness. Having gone blind from staring at the sun, he has chosen death over a darkened life. 20161107. Herschel, William 1738-1822 Fiction. Women astronomers Ireland Fiction. Ireland History 18th century Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Pipkin, John, New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2016 Blind astronomer's daughter. TXMIT