I WILL SOON spend a week or so on the dial-up modem, so “posting” to this imitation blog may be EXTRA-SPORADIC for a bit.
PLEASE EVERYONE: have a safe and joyous end to this Gregorian calendar year.
AND THANK YOU ALWAYS: for your kind attention.
That is all for now.
1781, BATH, ENGLAND: German-born astronomer William Herschel becomes the first modern scientist to discover a new planet within our solar system. He is not taken seriously at first. After all, the three “new planets” he had previously “discovered” turned out to be the sun, a fly on the lens of his telescope, and Earth, respectively. But this time he got it right: Uranus is a planet, and since our last writing, it has been admitted to THE CLUB OF PLANETS. (a)
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(a). Please see page 147 of The Areas of My Expertise under the heading “The Club of Debated Planets.”
