Transcript: Science Was a Muse to Inspire Romantic Art

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NPR Weekend All Things Considered
09-12-2009
Science Was a Muse to Inspire Romantic Art

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We're listening to William Herschel's "Symphony Number 13 in D Major." Herschel was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1738. He was a musician by training and settled in England as a young man. But later in life, he fell in love with the cosmos. And one night in March 1781, while sweeping the skies with a telescope, William Herschel made a discovery that doubled the known size of the solar system.

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