The Government and the Eclipse Expedition

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Oct 1870

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Nature, Volume 2, Issue 52, pp. 512-513 (1870).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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WE are now within two months of the date fixed by Nature, whose name you so worthily wear, for a total Eclipse of the Sun, and it is not probable that she will postpone her appointment for a period sufficient to enable the joint committee of the Royal and Astronomical Societies to renew and succeed in their endeavour to teach the Government what such a phenomenon may, if duly observed, contribute to human knowledge. It may be taken for granted that no encouragement will be afforded by our thrifty rulers to an expedition of sixty-eight astronomers, projected for the quixotic purpose of collecting intelligence not calculated to increase the revenue.

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