DISCOVERY O KLLITE OF SATURN i 1 3 



irge stars were a little affected with 

 Mattered light, owing to many rcn 

 rror." 



am of hard thinking and continuous labour, 

 ittles with not very intelligent workmen, some- 

 times forty in number, and of disappointment with 

 t alao with gruinMing from hia siater 

 Caroline, ended at last A n nnphant tone may be 

 heard in the words which conrlu-i.- his short history of 



progress of the work. They are : 

 "Aug. the 28th, 1789. Having brought the tele- 

 scope to the parallel of Saturn, I discovered a sixth 

 hat planet, and also saw the spots upon 

 Satuni IH-U. r than I had ever seen them before, so 

 that I may data the finishing of the 40- feet telescope 



Herschel could now take stock of the " contents of 

 the heavens " as he had never been able to do before. 

 i above the ground, whilo the tube was coated 

 iiv in winter, or running with streams of 

 moist i miner, he could dictate through speaking- 



tubes what his sister was to write down, or how the 

 assistant was to move the telescope. Seated in a little 

 house far below, his sister watched the clock, and 

 entered remarks and measurements with an accuracy 

 and zeal no other assistant could have equalled or sur- 

 passed. Brother and sister were in a position to carry 

 _;reat ideas, and to put into living shape vast 

 imaginations of genius. 



cost telescope was far more than 



Herschel could be expected to meet Fortunately, the 



advisers of the King were more reasonable men than 



those who considered 200 a year remuneration enough 



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