Astronomy
- March 28 - H. W. Olbers discovers the second asteroid Pallas.
- Sir William Herschel first uses the term binary star to refer to a star which revolves around another star and coins the term asteroid.
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“Awareness of the stars and their light pervades the Koran, which reflects the brightness of the heavenly bodies in many verses. The blossoming of mathematics and astronomy was a natural consequence of this awareness. Understanding the cosmos and the movements of the stars means understanding the marvels created by Allah. There would be no persecuted Galileo in Islam, because Islam, unlike Christianity, did not force people to believe in a “fixed” heaven.”
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