On March 13, 1781, the seventh planet in our solar system, Uranus, was discovered completely by accident. An amateur British-German astronomer named William Herschel had been looking through his ...

A 7 foot telecope similar to this one was used by William Herschel to sweep the heavens and in the spring of 1781from his garden in Bath he first observed the planet Uranus. He made the telescope ...

The workshop where William Herschel ground his mirrors and built his telescopes has been reconstructed as it might have appeared when the astronomer lived there. Replicas of his furnace and mirror ...