The discovery of infrared radiation is attributed to the British-German astronomer William Herschel, who also wrote 24 symphonies.

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The Age of Wonder details the work of people like Joseph Banks, Humphry Davy and William Herschel who transformed the way we view the world.

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The far-infrared telescope is named after William Herschel, the 18th Century astronomer who - as we all know - discovered Uranus from his back garden in Bath in the west of England.

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People didn't believe at first that William Herschel could see the things he was claiming to pick out in the sky, but then his speculum mirror technology was so in advance of anything that had been produced at that stage.

BBC: Uranus image celebrates Herschel - the man and the machine