The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.

Augustus de Morgan

Mots clés science history admiration expectation praise astronomy recognition attention labour accurate incomplete nineteenth-century chief astronomical-society baily founder francis-baily

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