Herschel, John Frederick

A comment by John Frederick William Herschel in A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy [1830] (New York London Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1966), 305. 

Gillispie, C. C. (ed.), 1972, John Frederick William Herschel. in Dictionary cf Scientific Biography, Vo). 6, Ouries Scribner s Sons, New York, pp. 323-328. 

The notion of handedness in physical science arose from John Frederick William Herschel s descriptions (2) of quartz. (Parenthetically, it is worth noting here his discovery of the complexation of silver ions by thiosulfate and his comment that the resulting solutions tasted sweet. The eutropic [Au(S203)2] is also bioactive in "myochrysin", the chrysotherapeutic agent for rheumatoid arthritis.) The now well developed relationship between shape and chiroptical spectroscopy has roots in the... 

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