The Discovery of Uranus It was the year 1781. William Herschel had just made an incredible discovery. He had discovered the planet Uranus. But, what led him to this discovery?…
“Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto” by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was painted in 1597 ,with oils on a plaster canvas. The painting show three men, in a dark night sky around the moon. The main background of the painting is a night sky with clouds in the background and a large moon in the center of the painting. The foreground of the painting is three men in the sky. The man at the top of the painting is nude with a white robe around him.…
I chose to research about William Herschel, and how he discovered Uranus. It is very interesting to start out with, because I first studied about William Herschel himself and before he started he was a musician, then later in his life he had a interest in astronomy, so he switched later on in life to study astronomy.. He decided to build a huge telescope to look at the stars. HE was very interested in with how light reacted with the eye and said “the eye is one of the most extraordinary organs.” With his telescope he isolated double stars so he could measure the stellar parallax.…
This abstract poem has many interesting and diverse concepts throughout the entire piece. The main concept the poem is presenting is that almost everything is partially right, and that there are several ways everything can be interpreted. The poem begins with seven olives being arranged on a tabletop by Galileo. The poem continues, “Seven, because Neptune had to be a star, /and Pluto was nothing more than a speck / in the imagination.”…
By the end of the 1800s art was considered a subject of study just like science and math. For an artist to be taken seriously and considered a proffesional attending an art college was a neccesity. There they learn about line techniques, shading, colouring etc. Some artists believed that art was meant to be “studied” in schools. Art was meant to be felt like an emotion and the lines show flow from the conciousness to the paper.…
Mercury is a rocky planet and is the closest celestial body to the sun in our solar system. The planet is covered in many craters, boulders and pulverized dust. The planet lacks an atmosphere to help dictate temperature changes throughout a day, so the planet can experience many temperature swings multiple times per day. After a number of observations, it has been inferred that the planet has been geologically inactive for billions of years.…