All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

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.