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William and Caroline Herschel

In Our Time: Science

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A Brief History of Astronomy by William Heges

William's father instilled in him a keen interest in scientific knowledge and maths. By the early 17 seventies, heges told of robert smith's two volume treatise on optics. That's really when he gets plugged into the mechanics of astronomy. He is self taught from his own reading, it, from these books. And this relevant later on about how he can see things and discover things. Because he's not disinterested in observing planets and the motions of the planets. He's actually got a curiosity about the nature of the heavens beyond the solar system,. How they relate to another, what their distances are, their distribution and all o. This is driven just by his

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