Tag: William Herschel

  • What’s in the name Uranus?

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 32, Number 5. William Herschel was the most famous astronomer of the eighteenth century. So much so, that Heinz Pagels called…

  • Uranus

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 5. For thousands of years, humans looked up at the night sky and observed the stars. They found that…