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Uranus, discovered by Herschel in 1781. In March 1781, during his search for double stars, Herschel noticed an object appearing as a disk. Herschel originally thought it was a comet or a stellar disc, which he believed he might actually resolve. [40] He reported the sighting to Nevil Maskelyne the Astronomer Royal. [41]
In 1781, William Herschel was looking for binary stars in the constellation of Taurus when he observed what he thought was a new comet. Its orbit revealed that it was a new planet, Uranus, the first ever discovered telescopically. [20] Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres in 1801, a small world between Mars and
The planet's first appearance in a work of fiction was in the pseudonymous "Monsieur Vivenair" ' s 1784 novel A Journey Lately Performed Through the Air, in an Aerostatic Globe, Commonly Called an Air Balloon, from this Terraqueous Globe to the Newly Discovered Planet, Georgium Sidus, a satire of the then-reigning British monarch George III and his court.
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH FRS (/ ˈ h ɜːr ʃ əl, ˈ h ɛər-/; [2] 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) [1] was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint [3] [4] [5] and did botanical work.
When in 1781 William Herschel discovered a new planet, Uranus, [90] it was found it lies at a distance beyond Saturn that approximately matches that predicted by the Titius-Bode rule. That rule observed a gap between Mars and Jupiter void of any known planet.
The year 1781 in science and technology involved some significant events. ... March 13 – William Herschel observes Uranus (although initially recording it as a ...
1781: William Herschel announces discovery of Uranus, expanding the known boundaries of the Solar System for the first time in modern history. 1785: William Withering: publishes the first definitive account of the use of foxglove for treating dropsy. 1787: Jacques Charles: Charles's law of ideal gases.
When William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, he at first named it Georgium Sidus (George's Star) after the King, who later funded the construction and maintenance of Herschel's 1785 40-foot telescope, which at the time was the biggest ever built.