Word: transit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Physics and Astronomy in Harvard College. He was very well known, during the latter part of the last century, by several works on astronomy, which may be found among the publications of the Royal Society, of which he was a Fellow. He made the best observation of the transit of Venus taken during the eighteenth century. He also published some books on earthquakes. A short time ago a certain professor had the curiosity to ask all the professors here whether they knew anything of this once celebrated John Winthrop. Only two had ever heard...
...with this request, and then the young professor steals into a corner and meditates upon the frivolity of life and the ingratitude of youth. For x + y has no influence here, and strange to say, young ladies prefer to dance with partners who can talk of something besides the transit of Venus or the missing link. Then, too, they do not like to experiment on the laws of falling bodies with a bad waltzer, although he may be able to give the formulas for them with the utmost precision...