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Discovery Of Uranus Research Paper

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I choose the topic “Discovery of Uranus by William Herschel in 1781”.

What was the motivation that led to the discovery of Uranus? As a voracious reader with a keen interest in science, William Herschel had an ardent desire to “obtain a knowoledge of the construction of the heavens”, which finally led him into astronomy. With a telescope made by himself, he began a systematic survey of the sky, in the hope of thus discovering some of the secrets of the universe. He continued to increase and improve his equipment. With the strong desire, he rose from an unknown organist and musician to the posotion of the leading astronomer of his time, and became the “Father of Modren Astronomy”.

On the night of March 13, 1781, he discovered an

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