Biographies Of Distinguished Scientific Men (Hardback)
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This item is printed on demand. Hardcover. 504 pages. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: first comedies of Moliere, The three rival Doctors and The Schoolmaster, are no longer known but by their titles. Let us recall to mind that reflection of Voltaires: It is very difficult to succeed before the age of thirty in a branch of literature that requires a knowledge of the world and of the human heart. A happy chance showed that the sciences might open an honourable and glorious path to the discouraged poet. M. de Moncaville offered to teach him mathematics, in exchange for drawing-lessons that his son received from the warder of the kings pictures. The proposal being accepted, the progress of Sylvain Bailly in these studies was rapid and brilliant. BAILLY BECOMES THE PUPIL OF LACAILLE. HE IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIM IN HIS ASTRONOMICAL LABOURS. The mathematical student soon after had one of those providential meetings which decide a young mans future fate. Mademoiselle Lejeuneux cultivated painting. It was at the house of this female artist, known afterwards as Madame La Chenaye, that Lacaille saw Bailly. The attentive, serious, and modest demeanour of the student charmed the great astronomer. He showed it in a most unequivocal manner, by offering, though so avaricious of his time, to become the guide of the future observer, and also to put him in communication with Clairaut. It is said that from his first intercourse with Lacaille, Bailly showed a decided vocation for astronomy. This fact appears to me incontestable. At his first appearance in this line, I find him associated in the most laborious, difficult, and tiresome investigations of that great observer. These epithets may perhaps appear extraordinary; but they will be so only to those who have learnt the science of the stars in ancient poems, either in verse or in prose. The Chalda;ans, luxu. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-07-25. Hardcover. Used:Good. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Ships Fast. Expedite Shipping Available.

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