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The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of the floating leaf freighted with its cargo of atmospheric dust; and the flying balloon is but the infant's soap-bubble lightly laden and overgrown. But the Telescope, even in its most elementary form, embodies a novel and gigantic idea, without an analogue in nature, and without a prototype in experience
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
John Timbs
Born:
August 17, 1801
Died:
March 6, 1875
(aged 73)
Bio:
John Timbs was an English author and antiquary. Some of his work was published under the pseudonym of Horace Welby.
Known for:
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities (1866)
Things Not Generally Known (1857)
School-Days Of Eminent Men (1858)
A century of anecdote from 1760 to 1860 (1860)
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