William Hershal

so, there is this wonderful story about William Hershal whilst he was designing his impossible telescope. Whilst casting the metal -in his basement-, he made a miscalculation with the temperature of the furnace and it exploded, throwing molten metal across the stone room and apparently missing Hershal by 2 feet. It lest massive cracks around the basement. There is also this chart, which was not drawn by Hershal but by John Flamsteed in 1729.

And this is Hershals telescope.

He also thought people lived on the moon in little circular cities-Circuses. ha!

So I think I'd like to do something with molten metal scaring wood. and maybe embroider cloth with some atlas pages. And i think I'd like to have the music he wrote playing, because he was also a well respected cellist and pianist and played for the Bath pump room orchestra. That was a very big deal in 1760. And something about the people in the moon because that's just spectacular.