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William Herschel's Discovery Of Uranus

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I chose to research about William Herschel, and how he discovered Uranus. It is very interesting to start out with, because I first studied about William Herschel himself and before he started he was a musician, then later in his life he had an interest in astronomy, so he switched later on in life to study astronomy.. He decided to build a huge telescope to look at the stars. He was very interested in with how light reacted with the eye and said “the eye is one of the most extraordinary organs.” With his telescope he isolated double stars so he could measure the stellar parallax. As he was doing this he found the planet Uranus. But William Herschel says it was not by chance at all. “He saw it as an inevitable consequence of a series of thorough

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