Show A youthful stargazer star gazer in the year 1738 a boy named wllliam william herschel was born in hanover when he was still quite young he became a soldier tit in the hanoverian army kut but soldiering did not interest william and as he could not get out nut or of the army he ran away to england and settled in eath bath whore where he studied music and became an organist then he gave music lessons studied mathematics at odd mo moments and became tremendously interested in the science 0 of figures at last lie he began to calculate the distance which separated them from the earth he spoke to his sister caroline about this and the two stalled to make telescopes through which to obrene the stars so enthusiastic did william and caroline become that their house was gradually turned into a workshop and there were pieces of telescope everywhere when william was giving a concert caroline would watch the sky and when he was gazing through a certain huge telescope he iad had made she would sit beside him all through the night and write down his observations then on march 13 1781 william made a wonderful discovery he round found the seventh grent great planet in the solar system uranus I 1 A little later the king made him royal astronomer and afterwards knighted him but whenever the name of the great astronomer sir william herschel Is mentioned we think also of his bister caroline who was an equally great astronomer trono tro nomer iner without her help he might have been a poor teacher 0 of music all liis ills life |