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"Mars to Uranus" - shouldn't there be a colon in there somewhere? (Well you did ask...).
Waterhouse | 13.09.15 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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A local school is also named after Herschel.
Claire | 13.09.15 - 9:32 a.m. | #
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Here's Atilla the Stockbroker's most excellent riposte to Betjeman.
Wow, a new bus station, looks good.
And a Norman Church? Who'd have known? We do now, thanks.
Lorenzo | 13.09.15 - 11:25 a.m. | #
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There's also a pub called the Herschel Arms.
paul draper | 13.09.15 - 1:01 p.m. | #
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"the first person in millennia to discover a planet"
Until Herschel, no planets had really been "discovered", because they had always been visible: you no more had to discover them than to discover the moon, or the species rattus rattus. I suppose one could argue that Copernicus discovered a new planet, as he was the first to realise that the Earth is a planet (and that the sun is not).
timbo | 13.09.15 - 2:18 p.m. | #
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Shame the Kedermister Library inside St. Mary's, Langley Marsh wasn't open for your visit.
Good picture of it here.
Martin'O'London | 13.09.15 - 3:12 p.m. | #
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Copernicus was not the first to suggest that the earth was a planet, Aristarchus of Samos, born about 310 BC, promoted that view, and some scholars think that it was quite widespread at the time.
But Copernicus successfully revived the idea, after it had become deeply unfashionable in the interim.
Malcolm | 13.09.15 - 3:41 p.m. | #
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@Malcolm - point taken: perhaps Copernicus may be credited with re-discovering it?
timbo | 13.09.15 - 8:59 p.m. | #
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I hope DG’s readers will take a few minutes to inform themselves about Caroline Herschel, William’s sister. Thanks to her undertaking the laborious calculations that his work required, William’s time was freed up for the more exciting work of observing. She became a respected astronomer in her own right and was awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s Gold Medal in 1828.
Great Aunt Annie | 13.09.15 - 10:45 p.m. | #
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...and perhaps visit the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath, first home to William and Caroline, and from whose back garden Uranus was discovered.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.09.15 - 11:38 p.m. | #
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re: all those shiny roofs - if they were to cover them with PV solar panels then they'd be doing more than keeping the rain out.
I remember Ladybird Children's Clothes. Sometimes Mum even felt rich enough to buy them for us!
Bronchitikat | Homepage | 14.09.15 - 10:38 a.m. | #
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A second nod for the fascinating St Mary's Church at Langley Marish, essentially part of Slough.
http://langleymarish.com/stmary/tour-of-st-marys-church/
David | 14.09.15 - 12:26 p.m. | #
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Typing this in a state of excitement... just looking at DG's photostream and there is me and me boat!!! Sitting at the canal festival having lunch with my mum... union flag bunting flying proudly. So close to the great man without knowing it.... Must look to copy your photo for my mums 2016 calendar. Seriously the festival could be SO much better but peeps seems happy as it is (no beer this year, thank heavens for a onboard supply of Belgium's finest). Bloom Park is also the location for the planned (really there is money for a engineering study) link to the river Thames - around 2 miles away.
Roger Stocker | 17.09.15 - 5:37 p.m. | #
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