Identifier: generalbiographyv4pt1aiki (find matches)
Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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))<: Spl.cni-, which let! himto engage in a train of study that was perfectlysuited to his genius, and rendered hii r after-wards so justly celebrated. Having read thisastronomical treatise with wonderful delight,he translated as much of it into Euglish as hethought necessary for his use, and afterwardsprocured more modern books of the same ki :d,and among them Streets Astronomia Carolina,from which he learned to calculate eclipses,and the planets places. One of his calcula-tions being shewn to Mr. Halton, a considerablemathematician, 1 upon our young astro-nomer, and soon after sent him Ricciolis A/-juagestum Kwun; and Keplers Tahula Ru-dolphin<gt with some other mathematical books,to which he was a stranger. From this timehe prosecuted his astronomical studies withthe utmost vigour, and a proportionable suc-cess. In the year 16^9, having calculatedan eclipse of the sun that was omitted iuthe Ephemer.des for the following year, andalso live appulses of the moon to fixed stars,
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