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The stars are the land-marks of the universe...
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Seeing is in some respects an art which must be learnt. To make a person see with such a power is nearly the same as if I were asked to make him play one of Handel's fugues upon the organ. Many a night I have been practicing to see, and it would be strange if one did not acquire a certain dexterity by such constant practice.
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Giant Size and Giant Strength are ugly qualities without beneficence. But the sun is the almoner of the Almighty, the delegated dispenser to us of light and warmth, as well as the centre of attraction; and as such the immediate source of all our comforts, and indeed of the very possibility of our existence on earth.
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Man is the undisputed lord of the creation. The strongest and fiercest of his fellow-creatures - the whale, the elephant, the eagle, and the tiger - are slaughtered by him to supply his most capricious wants, or tamed to do him service, or imprisoned to make him sport.
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Many of the operations of nature are carried on in her great laboratory which we cannot comprehend, but now and then we see some of the tools with which she is at work. [The many telescopic comets may restore to the sun what is lost by the emission of light.]
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Born:
March 7, 1792
Died:
May 11, 1871
(aged 79)
Bio:
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet was an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer, who also did valuable botanical work.
Known for:
A treatise on astronomy (1833)
Familiar lectures on scientific subjects (1866)
Memoirs of the Analytical Society
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