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Sir George Biddell Airy frontispiece, The Popular Science Monthly (May, 1873) Vol. 3, No. 1, "Sketch of Sir G. B. Airy."

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In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.

[T]he instrumental conceptions derived from the use of a common globe are sufficient, in almost every case, for the understanding of the instruments in an Observatory...

Popular Astronomy: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Ipswich (1868)

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