The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

His house at 19 New King Street in Bath Somerset where he made many telescopes and first observed Uranus is now home to the Herschel Museum of Astronomy. In all Herschel discovered over 800 confirmed double or multiple star systems almost all of them physical rather than virtual pairs.

In addition he was the first person to discover the existence of infrared radiation. Sir Frederick William HerschelKH FRS (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer technical expert and composer.