The Reminiscences of An Astronomer
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Mr. Clark was quite sure that the tail wasnot shown when he had previously used the glass, but he could notaccount for it at the time. He afterwards traced it to the warm aircollecting in the upper part of the tube and producing an irregularrefraction of the light. When this cause was corrected the defectdisappeared. But he got no further encouragement at home to pursuehis work. The first recognition of his genius came from England, the agent being Rev. W. R. Dawes, an enthusiastic observer of ...doublestars, who was greatly interested in having the best of telescopes. Mr. Clark wrote him a letter describing a number of objects whichhe had seen with telescopes of his own make. From this descriptionMr. Dawes saw that the instruments must be of great excellence, andthe outcome of the matter was that he ordered one or more telescopesfrom the American maker. Not until then were the abilities of thelatter recognized in his own country.
I have often speculated as to what the result might have been hadMr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Mr. Clark was quite sure that the tail wasnot shown when he had previously used the glass, but he could notaccount for it at the time. He afterwards traced it to the warm aircollecting in the upper part of the tube and producing an irregularrefraction of the light. When this cause was corrected the defectdisappeared. But he got no further encouragement at home to pursuehis work. The first recognition of his genius came from England, the agent being Rev. W. R. Dawes, an enthusiastic observer of ...doublestars, who was greatly interested in having the best of telescopes. Mr. Clark wrote him a letter describing a number of objects whichhe had seen with telescopes of his own make. From this descriptionMr. Dawes saw that the instruments must be of great excellence, andthe outcome of the matter was that he ordered one or more telescopesfrom the American maker. Not until then were the abilities of thelatter recognized in his own country.
I have often speculated as to what the result might have been hadMr.
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