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Sir William Herschel, German-born British astronomer.Artist: E Scriven
Sir William Herschel, German-born British astronomer. Holding a diagram of planets and their planetry rings. Herschel (1738-1822) constructed his own telescope after taking up astronomy as a hobby. As well as discovering the planet Uranus in 1781 and two of its satellites, he performed a major study of Saturn. He discovered two satellites, the rotation of the planetary rings and the period of the planet's rotation. He also catalogued and investigated the motions of binary stars, the results of which are still in use.
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AR943588
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Public
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3729px × 4686px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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18th century
Astronomer
Astronomy
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Britain
British
country
Discovery
E
E Scriven
eighteenth century
Engraving
German
Germany
Herschel
JOB
JOHN
John Russell;Russell
LOCATION
Male
Man
Men
Monochrome
OCCUPATION
People
Planets
Portrait
Print Collector4
PROFESSION
SATURN
saturnian
Science
Scientist
Scriven
Sir William
Sir William Herschel
Solar System
The Print Collector
Uranus
WILLIAM
William Herschel