Thursday, July 20, 2006
Astronomer Wm. Herschel was really passionate about double stars and that is what he thought he had found when he discovered Uranus in1781. The museum was his former home, donated by his great-great-great grandaughter. Not only an accomplished scientist who already determined the depth of the craters on our moon in the 1700s with a telescope he developed himself but he was also an accomplished musician and gardener. Everything was in order in the house and it gave me a feeling of tranquility and cerebral contemplation like a great mind was at work within the walls.