ocr: HELIOCENTRIC WORLD VIEW DISCOVERIES OF NEW PLANETS William Herschel (1738-1822), a Ger- man-born astronomer living in England, was the first observer to concentrate on objects outside the solar system. In the solar system he discovered a new plan- et, Uranus, in 1781, which he first took to be a comet. Later it was confirmed ds a planet and the solar system doubled in size. This was the first discovery of a planet since classical times. Herschel al- Besides being an So began to get an idea of the nature of astronomer, Herschel was the universe with the help of the most also a composer and an p ...
