The Astronomer Who Knelt
On the night of March 13, 1781, William Herschel pointed his homemade telescope toward the constellation Gemini from his garden in Bath, England, and discovered...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 33:4-6, 9, 18-20, 22.
On the night of March 13, 1781, William Herschel pointed his homemade telescope toward the constellation Gemini from his garden in Bath, England, and discovered Uranus — the first new planet found since antiquity. Over the following decades, Herschel catalogued thousands of nebulae and double stars, mapping the heavens with breathtaking precision. Yet the deeper he peered into the cosmos, the more his wonder grew, not shrank.…
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