Herschel Museum of Astronomy
Georgian townhouse where Uranus was discovered, with the original telescope-making workshop and garden.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath follows William Herschel, a German-born organist who spent his nights building telescopes in the house at 19 New King Street. It turns on the odd materials of his basement workshop, the furnace beside the kitchen, and a day in seventeen eighty-one when he and his brother Alexander set out to cast a mirror. Best heard standing in the workshop, with the flagstones at your feet.
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