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Coffee as drunk in England, debilitates the stomach, and produces a slight nausea... it is usually made from bad Coffee, served out tepid and muddy, and drowned in a deluge of water.

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Immense telescopes are only about as useful as the enormous spectacles which are suspended over the doors of opticians!

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Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

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F I was an Optician, - I think that I would almost as willingly - Waltz blindfold and barefoot among 9 Red hot Ploughshares laid at unequal distances from each other, - as have All my Telescopes tried by that truly troublesome test a Fixed Star.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

William Kitchiner

William Kitchiner

Born: 1775
Died: 1827 (aged 52)
Bio: William Kitchiner M.D. was an English optician, inventor of telescopes, amateur musician and exceptional cook. His name was a household word during the 19th century, and his 1822 cookbook, The Cook's Oracle, was a bestseller in England and the United States.
Known for:
  1. The economy of the eyes (1824)
  2. The Cook's Oracle, and Housekeeper's Manual

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