Computer Science – Learning
Scientific paper
Oct 1871
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1871natur...4..503g&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 4, Issue 104, pp. 503 (1871).
Computer Science
Learning
Scientific paper
Is there nobody who will perform an act of justice, and ask those who seem to have never known or to have forgotten my doings, to be kind enough not to deprive me of my just claims? When, A.D. 1857, my old method of determining the sun's parallax was again publicly proposed, I thought it somewhat strange, and wondered what could be the reason that it should be treated as if it were some new and not a very old acquaintance of Science. When, some time later, a stir was made about what was represented as a new method of investigating the motion of the solar system in space, and, instead of a new, there was brought forward an old acquaintance (known to Science since the times of your grandfathers), only dressed anew, and engaged to perform some truly ``astounding'' antics, I wondered indeed that no friendly hand should have prevented such an exhibition, but I also comprehended the true state of affairs. And since then I have had to shrug my ghostly shoulders so often when learning further news about your curious knowledge of Science, and your strange opinions, and your queer notions of honour, and justice, and fairness, that I have long ceased to wonder at anything some of you may say or do. However, as it is only right that I should be allowed to retain what belongs to me, and as nobody appears to remember my claims, you will probably raise no objection, if I, myself, enlighten you a little, and remind you how, A.D. 1672, I determined the sun's parallax.
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