ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the production of the Cape Results: the preparation, publication, distribution, and reception. It is therefore germane to begin with an historiographical discussion of the recent or "new" history of the book, in particular the production of scientific books. The chapter considers the production of Herschel's Cape Results in the light of this new discipline of the history of the book. The production of the Cape Results involved its own "circuit of communication," different, of course, from the "circuits" described by studies like those of Topham and Secord. In order to combine what was known of the distribution of such objects in the northern hemisphere with his findings on those in the south thereby obtaining a complete picture of the distribution of such objects over the "surface of the heavens" he created his own projection of this surface. The images of celestial objects contained in the Cape Results were drawn by Herschel with his camera lucida.
