Hanover, Holy Roman Empire, 15 November 1738
Slough, England, 25 August 1822
astronomer and composer

William Herschel



Portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott, 1785

Hanover, Holy Roman Empire, 15 November 1738
Slough, England, 25 August 1822
astronomer and composer

William Herschel



Original manuscript of Symphony No. 15 in E-flat major (1762)

Hanover, Holy Roman Empire, 15 November 1738
Slough, England, 25 August 1822
astronomer and composer

William Herschel



Replica in the William Herschel Museum, Bath, of a telescope similar to that with which Herschel discovered Uranus

Hanover, Holy Roman Empire, 15 November 1738
Slough, England, 25 August 1822
astronomer and composer

William Herschel



William and Caroline Herschel polishing a telescope lens (probably a mirror); 1896 lithograph

Hanover, Holy Roman Empire, 15 November 1738
Slough, England, 25 August 1822
astronomer and composer

William Herschel



William Herschel's model of the Milky Way, 1785

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