Herschel’s House

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Herschel’s House

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William Herschel, born in Hanover in 1738, came to England as a musician. He settled in Bath in 1766, where he became an organist and composed madrigals which were sung at the Theatre Royal. He also worked on astronomy; his house contained a workshop and he built a telescope, with which he discovered the planet Uranus in 1781, thus making the known confines of the solar system recede. He left Bath in 1782 and died in 1822.

Madrigal

Madrigal for four voices, with accompaniment of strings, two horns and two oboes, manuscript score by Herschel (1780, by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)
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Workshop

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Telescope

Drawing by William Watson (1783) of a seven-feet long telescope built by Herschel (Royal Astronomical Society, London).
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