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See also:HERSCHEL, See also:SIR See also:FREDERICK See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1738-1822) , generally known as Sir William Herschel, See also:English astronomer, was See also:born at See also:Hanover on the 15th of See also:November 1738. His See also:father was a musician employed as hautboy player in .the Hanoverian guard. The See also:family had quitted See also:Moravia for See also:Saxony in the See also:early See also:part of the 17th See also:century on See also:account of religious troubles, they themselves being Protestants. Herschel's earlier See also:education was necessarily of a very limited See also:character, chiefly owing to the warlike commotions of his See also:country; but being at all times an indomitable student, he, by his own exertions, more than repaired this deficiency. He became a very skilful musician, both theoretical and See also:practical; while his attainments as a self-taught mathematician were fully adequate to the See also:prosecution of those branches of See also:astronomy which he so eminently advanced and adorned. Whatever he did he did methodically and thoroughly; and in this methodical thoroughness See also:lay the See also:secret of what See also:Arago very properly termed his astonishing scientific success.
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