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  William Herschel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Herschel was born as Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in Hanover, Germany, one of ten children (of which four died very young).
In 1816, William was knighted "Sir William Herschel" by the Prince Regent.
Herschel discovered infrared radiation by passing sunlight through a prism and holding a thermometer just beyond the red end of the visible spectrum.
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 William Herschel Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The William Herschel Museum is a museum dedicated to the life and works of the famous astronomer, William Herschel.
The museum is situated in Herschel's former residence in Bath, England, where he manufactured telescopes and also discovered the planet Uranus in 1781, his most famous achievement, though he continued to make extensive contributions to the field of astronomy.
The museum currently opens at different times depending on the time of year, and is sometimes closed for repairs and so on.
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 William Herschel -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herschel was born as Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in (The English royal house that reigned from 1714 to 1901 (from George I to Victoria)) Hanover, (A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) Germany, one of ten children (of which four died very young).
On April 3 1786, William Herschel moved his family to a new residence on Windsor Road in (Any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)) Slough.
William and Mary had one child, ((New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation) John, born at Observatory House on March 7 1792.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wi/William_Herschel.htm   (1452 words)

  
 “I have looked further into space than any human being did before me” – William Herschel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
So William aruged that in general a faint star is at a greater distant than the bright one, and because of their closeness to one another in the telescopic field, the parallax of the brighter star should be easy to spot (Sidgwick, 1953).
William and his sister left Bath to a house in Datchet, convenient to the royal residence at Windsor Castle, where William was to demonstrate the Royal Family celestial objects of particular interest upon their request.
William recognized the unreliability of his approach, because he found stars are not distributed uniformly but do in fact cluster, meaning a large number of stars counted in one direction does not always mean that the Galaxy extends a great distance in that direction (Bless, 1996).
www.astro.utoronto.ca /~bclarke/AST199M/HERSCHEL.htm   (3081 words)

  
 William Herschel
Sir William Herschel (November 15, 1738 – August 25, 1822) was an astronomer and composer who became famous for discovering the planet Uranus, and made many other astronomical discoveries.
William Herschel lived the rest of his life in this residence, which came to be known as Observatory House.
On August 25 1822, Herschel died at Observatory House and is buried at nearby St Laurence's Church, Upton.
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 William Herschel (1738-1822)
Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel was born in Hannover (Germany) in 1738 as son of Issak Herschel (1707-1767), a musician in the regimental band of the Foot-Guards, and Anna Ilse (b.
William Herschel died on August 25, 1822 in Slough, England, and was buried in the church of Upton on September 7.
William Herschel was honored lately by the astronomical community by naming Moon crater Herschel (5.7S, 2.1W, 40 km diameter, in 1935), together with his son John by naming Mars crater Herschel (14.9S, 230.3W, 304 km diameter, in 1973), and a crater on Saturn's moon Mimas (2.9N, 109.5W, in 1982).
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 William Herschel's catalog
William Herschel Museum: William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781 from a house in Bath, England, which is now a museum.
William Herschel got interested in systematically looking for, and observing, "nebulae" and star clusters when he was presented a copy of the Messier Catalog in December, 1781.
William Herschel was usually carefully avoiding to number the Messier objects, in appreciation of Messier's prior work.
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 Herschel
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 Great Creation Scientists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
For this discovery, Herschel was awarded the prestigious Copely Award of the Royal Society, and he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
Herschel investigated heat and light from the sun using thermometers and prisms.
Later, with the aid of telescopes, William Herschel was able to prove that the sun was a star moving through space as part of the Milky Way galaxy.
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 William Herschel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1816, William was knighted "Sir William Herschel" by the George IV of the United KingdomPrince Regent.
Herschel discovered infrared radiation by passing sunlight through a prism (optics)prism and holding a thermometer just beyond the red end of the visible spectrum.
Herschel (crater on Mars)Herschel, a large Impact craterimpact basin on Mars (planet)Mars/.
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 NASM Press Release: Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Announces Arrival of British National Treasure
Sir William Herschel's 217-year-old, 20-foot wooden telescope tube-a centerpiece of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's upcoming exhibition, "Explore the Universe"-has arrived at the museum on the National Mall.
On loan from the National Maritime Museum in London, Herschel's favorite telescope and an original metal mirror crafted for the tube traveled by ship from England and were transported from the Port of Baltimore in an 18-wheeled truck.
Herschel-the first person in recorded history to discover a planet (Uranus)-began observing with his 20-foot reflecting telescope in 1783.
www.nasm.si.edu /events/pressroom/releaseDetail.cfm?releaseID=83   (389 words)

  
 William Herschel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Though William and Caroline were not natives of Bath, both were born in Hanover, it is only fit that it is in Bath that you will find this museum celebrating their time in the city and their life stories.
It was from this house, using a telescope of his own design that William discovered the planet Uranus in 1781.
To quote from the patron of the museum Patrick Moore, William Herschel was 'the first man to give a reasonably correct picture of the shape of our star-system or galaxy; he was the best telescope-maker of his time, and possibly the greatest observer who ever lived'.
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 herschel william
The William Herschel Museum is dedicated to the many acheivements of the Herschel's, who were distinguished astronomers as well as talented musicians.
John Herschel was the son of William Herschel, the astronomer who discovered Uranus.
The founder of modern stellar astronomy was a German-born organist, William Herschel.
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 Sir John Herschel (Getty Museum)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
An accomplished chemist, Herschel discovered the action of hyposulfite of soda on otherwise insoluble silver salts in 1819, which led to the use of "hypo" as a fixing agent in photography.
It was Herschel who coined the use of the terms photography, positive, and negative to refer to photographic images.
In 1850 Herschel was appointed master of the Mint, but he resigned six years later due to poor health.
www.getty.edu /art/collections/bio/a1917-1.html   (201 words)

  
 William Herschel Society
The William Herschel Society was constituted in 1977, initially to gather support for the rescue of the home of Sir William Herschel at 19 New King Street, Bath.
The major annual event for the Society is the William Herschel Lecture.
This is held close to March 13th, commemorating Herschel's famous discovery of Uranus from the gardens of 19 New King Street in 1781.
www.williamherschel.org.uk /society.htm   (443 words)

  
 A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: HERSCHEL, Sir John Frederick William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The only son of the distinguished British astronomer William Herschel, Sir John himself also became a well-known astronomer, and published an influential book on the subject.
Herschel, of course, had the fortune to be around just at the time both Daguerre and Fox Talbot were announcing their discoveries.
It is also to Herschel that we also owe the word "photography", a term which he used in a paper entitled "Note on the art of Photography, or The Application of the Chemical Rays of Light to the Purpose of Pictorial Representation," presented to the Royal Society on 14 March 1839.
www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/herschel.htm   (311 words)

  
 Bath Attractions - Bath Travel Guide - England
Distinguished astronomer William Herschel used a telescope he built himself in this delightful Georgian townhouse to discover the planet Uranus in 1781, securing his place in history as one of the greatest astronomers of all time.
Visitors to the museum can view his workshop, the original kitchen, and the music room in the Herschel house, where William lived with his sister, Caroline, at the end of the 18th century.
Bath's comprehensive costume museum brings alive the story of fashion over the last 400 years from the late 16th century to the present day.
www.wordtravels.com /Cities/England/Bath/Attractions   (824 words)

  
 The William Herschel Society Home page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herschel developed the theory of nebulas and the evolution of stars.
William Herschel also demonstrated that the solar system moves through space and he discovered infrared radiation.
Members, both local and international, are drawn together by common interests which include not only the life and times of William Herschel and his Family but also the current and future aspects of astronomy and its related sciences.
www.williamherschel.org.uk   (193 words)

  
 Album: Herschel-Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1781, William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus from the backyard of his house in Bath.
Caroline Herschel, William's sister, is a well known comet hunter.
Herschel made his own telescopes, one of which is shown here.
www.peterchow.com /photos/United-Kingdom/Bath/Herschel-Museum   (92 words)

  
 Open Directory - Science: Astronomy: History: People: Herschel, Sir William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Herschel Museum - Description of the museum at 19 New King Street, Bath (18th century residence of William and Caroline Herschel)
Herschel, Sir William - Biography focusing on his abilities as musician and composer from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
William Herschel - Birth, death, and burial details with information on musical and scientific pursuits, portraits, pictures of tomb, and virtual memorial from Find a Grave.
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 WILLIAM HERSCHEL FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He helped to found the Astronomical Society of London in 1820, which in 1831 received a royal charter and became the Royal_Astronomical_Society.
His son John_Herschel also became a famous astronomer.
His house in Bath, where he made many telescopes and first observed Uranus, is now home to the William_Herschel_Museum.
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 Discover Bath, England, Great Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
During the 18th century Bath served as an extremely fashionable cultural hub attracting members of the middle and upper classes from all over the country.
The city is home to the Victoria Art Gallery, Museum of East Asian Art, and The Holburne Museum of Art; as well as the museums The Bath Postal Museum, The Museum of Costume, The Jane Austen Centre and of course the Roman Baths.
Bath is approximately 24 kilometres (15 miles) south east of the larger city and port of Bristol, to which it is linked by the A4 road, and is a similar distance south of the M4 motorway.
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 William Herschel Museum - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
William Herschel Museum - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage
Information published here was believed to be correct at the time it was prepared.
Welsh language pages developed with CYMAL: Museums Archives and Libraries Wales, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /museum_gfx_en/SW000099.html   (66 words)

  
 Bath Preservation Trust
Finding your way around the site is easy; use the links along the top of the page for general information about the trust and all of the museums.
You can jump into the museum specific areas of the site by clicking on the museum name in the horizontal banner above.
For full details of the educational activities available at the museums for adults, children and schools plus links to our downloadable museum trail leaflets.
www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk   (268 words)

  
 William Herschel Museum Garden - a Gardens Guide review
: William Herschel Museum is near Queen's Square.
: William Herschel (1738-1822) was the astronomer who discovered Uranus.
This is a re-creation of the garden as it might have been in his time.
www.gardenvisit.com /g/wil2.htm   (101 words)

  
 Tap into Bath | Home Page
We would like to thank all the entrants and the museums who kindly donated prize tickets.
Congratulations to the winners, we will be sending their prize tickets to them shortly.
A source of knowledge about museums, art galleries, archives and libraries in Bath.
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 Bath
The old Roman street pattern having been lost, King Alfred laid out the town afresh, leaving its south-eastern quadrant as the abbey precinct.
King William Rufus granted the city to a royal physician, John of Tours, who became Bishop of Wells and Abbot of Bath in 1088, with permission to move the see of Somerset from Wells to Bath.
Bishop John therefore became the first Bishop of Bath.
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 Encyclopedia article on William Herschel [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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