Astronomy: The Discovery of Uranus by Herschel I chose: Astronomy: The Discovery of Uranus by Hershcel in 1781. I was amazed how a musician, working with crude 7 foot reflecting telescope, and micrometer could find a planet in the wide expanse of space in the year 1780. In the scholarly report: Uranus and the Establishment of Herschel’s Astronomy; the author describes the process that was fastidiously executed, documented, and reported to the scientific community by Herschel. Herschel, a musician, also practiced amateur astronomy. He would nightly go to his telescope, peering at the night sky tracking the constellations, focusing on “all stars in the heavens down to the eighth magnitude, looking for double stars.” (pg 11,) After each observation