Born in 1738, this man spent most of his life as a musician performing for the Hanover Guards until accepting a post as an or
Born in 1738, this man spent most of his life as a musician performing for the Hanover Guards until accepting a post as an organist in Bath, England in 1766. After reading Robert Smith's A Compleat System of Opticks he became interested in astronomy, and, after building his own telescope, he began cataloging stars, nebulae, and binary stars, discovering a total of over 2,500 of them. For 10 points name this astronomer, famous for his theory of stellar evolution from nebulae and for his 1781 discovery of the planet Uranus.
Born in 1738, this man spent most of his life as a musician performing for the Hanover Guards until accepting a post as an organist in Bath, England in 1766.
William Herschel