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In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.

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Astronomy is pre-eminently the science of order.

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During a total eclipse we are permitted a hasty glance at some of the secrets of nature which cannot be seen on any other occasion.

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The general phenomenon [total eclipse] is perhaps the most awfully grand which man can witness.

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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George Biddell Airy

George Biddell Airy
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Born: July 27, 1801
Died: January 2, 1892 (aged 90)
Bio: Sir George Biddell Airy was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.
Known for:
  1. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
  2. Gravitation (1834)

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