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ATG letter: Take care when you talk about Uranus

MADAM – In last week’s Books, Maps & Prints supplement (ATG No 2290), on page 39 it is stated that the German astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered Venus.

08 May 2017

08 May 2017

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That planet, since antiquity, has always been one of the five original ‘naked eye’ planets. Herschel in fact discovered Uranus and its two moons, and formulated a theory of stellar evolution.

Arthur Middleton

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