Capitolo 76
his/her systematic and usual examination of the sky, some to a duration, when his
telescope illuminated among a group of small fixed stars on that that him to
before it imagined to be a new comet. It tried not to be comet, however but
a true planet--a true world, turning likes ours really in an almost
crossed circular around the sun as centre, although far more remote from him
what a the known most distant planet then, Saturn. Herschel called his new
I husk the _Georgium Sidus_ (the star of King Giorgio) in honour of the
monarch that reigns; but you/he/she has been since then known as Uranus. Astronomers everybody
on Europe it was informed soon of this marvelous discovery and the run
of the of coolness found planet was calculated by calculation its distance,
from the sun that it is established to nineteen times that of ours own earth.
In order weakly to understand the tied up importance to the duration to
The observation of Herschel of this very remote and apparently small world, us
it has to remember that above to that date all the planets that surround round
ours really sun was familiarly known to each from immemorial duration.
To suggest that there was still another world that belongs to our system
out of the run of the furthest known planet would be seemed more to
people like the pure folly. Since then we am grown then, rather accustomed to
the discovery of a small fresh world or two every year, and we also have
it had another great planet (Neptune), even more remote of Herschel
Uranus, assistant to the list of globes known in our his/her own solar system. But in
The day of Herschel, nobody had ever felt of a new planet that is open
since the beginning of all the things. One hundred years before, an Italian
astronomer, is true, you/he/she had discovered four small moons round rotating
Saturn, besides the great moon then already known; but for a whole
century, each believed that the solar system was rather fully now
explored, and that nothing coolness could be open around him. From now
The observation of Herschel produced a very different effect from, says, the