Posted on 03/13/2019 10:55:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The first recorded instance of Uranus being spotted in the night sky is believed to date back to Classical Antiquity. During the 2nd century BCE, Hipparchos - the Greek astronomer, mathematician and founder of trigonometry - apparently recorded the planet as a star in his star catalogue (completed in 129 BCE). This catalog was later incorporated into Ptolemy's Almagest, which became the definitive source for Islamic astronomers and for scholars in Medieval Europe for over one-thousand years... This included English astronomer John Flamsteed, who in 1690 observed the star on six occasions and catalogued it as a star in the Taurus constellation (34 Tauri). During the mid-18th century, French astronomer Pierre Lemonnier made twelve recorded sightings, and also recorded it as being a star... While Herschel would continue to maintain that what he observed was a comet, his "discovery" stimulated debate in the astronomical community about what Uranus was. In time, astronomers like Johann Elert Bode would conclude that it was a planet, based on its nearly-circular orbit. By 1783, Herschel himself acknowledged that it was a planet to the Royal Society... As he lived in England, Herschel originally wanted to name Uranus after his patron, King George III. Specifically, he wanted to call it Georgium Sidus (Latin for "George's Star"), or the Georgian Planet. Although this was a popular name in Britain, the international astronomy community didn't think much of it, and wanted to follow the historical precedent of naming the planets after ancient Greek and Roman gods. Consistent with this, Bode proposed the name Uranus in a 1782 treatise.
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You say that like it's a bad thing... ;^).
Proctologists seem like weirdos until ya get to know one, then you know they are. :^) And it's pronounced PROC-tol-lo-gist. /rimshot
LoL
You sure picked a doozy
Me too
Barney Frank?
Uranus is so ugly...
The doctor slapped ur mother...
Rhankyou Rodney
Who Discovered Uranus?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Unlike Chuck Schumer, Barrack Obama and many other demoncrats, I discovered my own./s
The others obviously had some pedophile discover theirs before they themselves could./s
This explains why Schumer, Obama and most Donks are such dishonest touch-holes.
So, what’s the prognosis? Not that
we need minute details...was it slammed
into by something, and knocked over on
it’s side? ;)....
Star Trek chased Klingons around Uranus
So disappointed its not brown...
Does it at least have a moon called Dingleberry?
[Missed opportunity if not...]
Best headline of the week ...
My Ma.
Charmin wiped away the rings around Uranus.
Ouranos or Uranus. Which is worse? As if they couldn’t just name it Bob.
Some dirty bugger, no doubt
Who Discovered Uranus?
Keep your hands to yourself!
Well, at least there was not a title typo yielding “Who Discovered Urananus?”
Who discovered Uranus?
I think my mom was first.
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