This week we look at the work of William Herschel (the discovery of Uranus), Giuseppe Piazzi (the discovery of Ceres), Heinrich Olbers (the discovery of Pallas), Urbain Le Verrier (the discovery of Neptune), Alexis Bouvard and Johann Galle (the discovery of Neptune) as they discovered new worlds in a Newtonian solar system. We consider the mathematical frameworks of Laplace and the Titius-Bode Law as guiding physical laws for the investigation of the natural universe.
William Herschel
Urbain Le Verrier (Source: Brittanica.com)
Uranus as viewed through a 28" Earth-based telescope (Image Credit: Tom Kerss)
Ceres (Image from NASA Dawn Space Probe)
Giuseppi Piazzi
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