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William and Caroline Herschel

In Our Time: Science

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The Great Telescope of Herschel and Carlin

ipprose, the accumulation of what we are talking about will do it. But just the relentless, you know, what he calls sweeping the heavens for for for nebulae. The other thing that we didn't mention was his last great telescope, wi piin o. Yet a lot of his time when heis now the court astronomer, and he petitions the king for money to build what would be the largest telescope in the world. He discovered two and a half thousand nebulae - herschel ended up and herscel and carlin,. one would have to say, there definitely increased, not by an extraordinaryfactor.

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