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