September 28, 2016 - Bridget GroundQ&A with John Pipkin: Stellar finds from facts and family fragments of sibling astronomers Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching Tagged With: astronomy, Herschel family papers, literatureThe Blind Astronomer’s Daughter (Bloomsbury), a new novel by former Ransom Center fellow John Pipkin, offers readers a view into a world of scientific inquiry and political upheaval in late-eighteenth-century Ireland.