NATS 1745 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Johann Daniel Titius, Caroline Herschel, John Couch Adams
14 Apr 2013
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William herschel; german musical teacher, composer and astronomer. Their house at 19 new king street, has been restored as a museum called hershel house". Classic book of harmony was by dr. robert smith. Doubled the size of the solar system in 1781. In 1787, herschel later went on the discover two of the planets largest moons. His goal in life was to make a complete survey of the heavens and to discover the architecture of the comets. Joseph haydn, renowned composer: traveled to slough to meet herschel and look through his telescopes, he was apparently so astounded, it inspired him to write the creation. Johannes kepler, the first person to predict there could be more planets in 1596. He wrote between jupiter and mars, i would put a planet . To him, it was obvious that there was a yawning gap between jupiter and mars. Derived a formula to describe the planets distances from the sun.
