William Herschel’s discovery of Uranus in the scientific world was one that was meet with gladness. He made the first large telescope in 1774 and was which aided Herschel into finding out the Uranus was not a star, but a planet. The motivation for this was because Herschel had been doing this for years and years and had mapped out huge parts of the night shy. So for him it was something that he loved to do. He thought that Uranus was a comet and found that this “comet” was increasing in size and that it was approaching earth. “He was curious and seemed unremarked” as he looked at this “comet” Herschel’s discovery of a new planet was the first to be made in modern times, and also the first to be made by use of a telescope, which allowed Herschel