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  The Master was, I believe, my oldest surviving friend (beyond my own family), and, after an acquaintance of 46 years


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id: 19309
title: The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
author: Newcomb, Simon
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  order to learn in a moment what great astronomers of recent times had experience in the use of astronomical instruments, went at his work not only a great interest in scientific work, especially astronomy, way could keep the exact time necessary in the work of an astronomer. to have charge of the astronomical work of the observatory, which that the astronomical work of the observatory has not been prosecuted Of our leading astronomical observers of the present day--of such In astronomical observations all work is at the mercy of the elements. that up to a quite recent time no work on scientific method appeared Before his time the working force of an observatory time the trained astronomer worked with instruments of very delicate and the work of the Paris Observatory, so far as observations of of protection, but for some years I had not time to read their works,


id: 29031
title: Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works
author: Holden, Edward S. (Edward Singleton)
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  In the following account of the life and works of Sir WILLIAM HERSCHEL, on the Periodical Star in Collo Ceti_, by Mr. WILLIAM HERSCHEL, of Bath. For some years HERSCHEL has observed the heavens every hour The memoir on the forty-foot telescope shows throughout that HERSCHEL''S general catalogue existed before HERSCHEL''S time, and led by the In the prosecution of this work HERSCHEL found stars whose light was The double stars were the subject of HERSCHEL''S earliest and of his The question of determining the parallax of stars first brought HERSCHEL case of one of HERSCHEL''S double stars, in much the same order in which HERSCHEL himself lived to see some of his double stars perform observed (by Sir JOHN HERSCHEL) with a telescope of twenty feet, similar Sun and Fixed Stars_ (1795), HERSCHEL recounts what was known of the of each double star [observed by HERSCHEL], brought together on


id: 28613
title: Pioneers of Science
author: Lodge, Oliver, Sir
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  all-important body in the universe, if the sun and planets and stars planets and stars revolve round our insignificant earth was too great to The length of the earth''s year is 365·256 days; its mean distance from uniform motion in each circle round the earth as a fixed body. planet''s year depends on the 3/2th power of its distance from the sun. By this time Newton was only forty-five years old, but his main work was moon, which is 60 times as far from the centre of the earth, drops 16 the earth revolved round the sun, how came it that the fixed stars light must be 10,000 times as great as the velocity of the earth in its Newton of the observed facts of the motion of the moon, the way he Now consider the earth and moon revolving round each other like a man


id: 31598
title: The Egyptian Cat Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
author: Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)
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  Rick lifted the Egyptian cat and rifled a pass through the closing ranks Hassan led the way like a charging lineman, with Rick in his wake. "Give it to the right Ali Moustafa," Rick said. "Hassan," Rick said at last, "even American science couldn''t keep a Rick asked, still chuckling, "Hassan, do camels always complain like Rick''s hand went to the Egyptian cat in his pocket. Rick and Scotty sat on a box under the antenna while Hassan squatted and "Maybe they sent one for us and three for the cat," Rick said hopefully. Rick searched until he saw what Scotty''s quick eyes had spotted. Rick did so, and the boys went outside to where Hassan waited patiently. As the boys walked to where Hassan waited, Scotty grinned at Rick. Scotty saw him to the door, then turned to Rick. Rick and Scotty turned to look at the mustached man.


id: 2298
title: Great Astronomers
author: Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell)
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  movement, by which the stars and all other celestial bodies appear to Ptolemy''s astronomical works had appeared a few years before the observations of the new star as those which Tycho made, possessed, places of the moon, the planets, and the stars on the celestial The last of Galileo''s great astronomical discoveries related to the fact, the great observer himself did not accept the new views of as the circumstances of astronomical observation would at that time At the present day, astronomers of the great national observatories illustrious friend''s great work, so that in the same year he was in a movement of the earth around the sun, the star must appear to have great French astronomer sketched for the first time that remarkable earth, the sun, and the five great planets with which Laplace was When he was twenty-eight years old, his first great astronomical


id: 10655
title: Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
author: Airy, George Biddell
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  survey work, the establishment of time-balls at different places, his time was also given to Lectures, generally on current astronomical Herschel.--On Nov. 13th I gave the Royal Astronomical Society a Paper Greenwich Observatory this year.--I was at this time pressing Tulley, Observatory, visiting Greenwich once a week (at least for some time), Greenwich, and worked for a long time in the Computing Room.--And in Observatory, and a great deal of correspondence followed: the plans time-signals, moved by an original clock at the Royal Observatory; and great value of the Greenwich Lunar Observations to Prof. observed at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich. Observatory which has occupied any of my time within the last year is the Planetary Observations made at the Royal Observatory in the years Lunar Theory, the great work which for some years had occupied much of Observations made at Cambridge Observatory Observations made at the Royal Observatory,


id: 10202
title: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
author: Mitchell, Maria
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  they talked Miss Mitchell closed her book and took up her knitting, for When Miss Mitchell went to Europe she took her Almanac work with her, day;'' another said, ''They took a walk.'' It came to Hawthorne''s turn, and "One day Mrs. Hawthorne came to my room, held up an inkstand, and said, "Mrs. Airy said to me, ''Although we are invited to be guests of Dr. Whewell, he is quite too mighty a man to come to meet us." Her sons, "I turned to the young American girl who sat next to me, and said, ''Miss "Miss Southey said that her father felt that he knew as many Americans "I asked after the children, and Miss Southey said that the little boy "He told me that a fine-looking, white-headed, good-featured old man was In her life at Vassar College there was a great deal for Miss Mitchell


id: 12340
author: Anonymous
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  Herschel''s parents--The two brothers--A musical family--An inventive genius--The brothers in England--Herschel as an planet--Herschel''s combined musical and astronomical pursuits--A at Datchet--Herschel''s astronomical observations--Testing and strength--Herschel removes to Bath--Last days of an reputation--The forty-foot telescope--Herschel''s observations on Caroline Herschel''s devotion to her brother William--Her grief and gold medal--South on Sir William''s discoveries--On Miss Herschel''s duty--Sir John''s visit to Miss Herschel--Reminiscences of early brothers," says Caroline Herschel, "were often introduced as solo In July 1783 Herschel began his observations with his large twenty-foot telescope, had, prior to Herschel''s time, felt his curiosity excited by great was the importance, of Herschel''s labours, and in how remarkable "My brother left Slough, accompanied by Lady Herschel, for Herschel, says a brother astronomer, will never cease to occupy an view the results of all the observations Sir William Herschel had made received and read Sir John Herschel''s great work, "Cape the Herschels--brother, sister, nephew--in all the bright and lovely

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  The Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers Sir William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Caroline Herschel


id: 6574
title: Watchers of the Sky
author: Noyes, Alfred
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  the very point of death hands them over to a young man named Kepler. the great rhythmical laws of the universe revealed by science, truth That darkness once again, and win new worlds. Meets the unknowable and eternal God. And there was one that moved like light in light To talk with Tycho of the strange new dreams Like some great poet''s universal song. And, as he wondered, like a light she moved Hipparchus also saw a strange new star, To mark the world''s end and the Judgment Day. Then, in this hubbub, Dancey told the king Into the great new age I shall not know, Into the great new age I must not know, Into the great new age I must not know, Build the new heaven and earth, and save the world."_ Like a blind giant in dreams to find what power And, if men found new worlds in years to come,


