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William Herschel

noun

English astronomer (born in Germany) who discovered infrared light and who catalogued the stars and discovered the planet Uranus (1738-1822). Synonyms: Herschel, Sir Frederick William Herschel, Sir William Herschel.

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... Sir William Herschel was the first astronomer to make a serious attack upon the problem of the structure of the stellar universe. In his first memoir on the "Construction of the Heavens," read before the Royal Society in 1784, he wrote ...

— The New Heavens • George Ellery Hale

... distant from Stoke lies the village of Slough, rendered famous by the residence of the celebrated astronomer, Sir William Herschel, and a short way further, on a gentle slope continued the whole way from Stoke, stand the venerable towers of time-honored Eton, on the bank of the Thames, directly opposite, and looking up to the proud castle of the kings of England, unmatched in its lofty, commanding situation and rich ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 • Various

Words linked to "William Herschel" : uranologist, stargazer, astronomer