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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Less well known is that William Herschel (the English
astronomer, discoverer of Uranus) overheard Laplace's
answer and politely but firmly disagreed...

54 posted on 03/26/2002 4:47:23 AM PST by NukeMan

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To: NukeMan

Less well known is that William Herschel...

Nice sketch of Herschel in Parallax, the Race to Measure the Cosmos.

The book cloys due to too many personal anecdotes by the author, but worth reading.

70 posted on 03/26/2002 6:25:28 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets

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