Word: sunâ
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...thus adds another chapter to his eventful history that began in 1842 in the reign of Louis Philippe. At four he could read. At six he had completed what is equivalent to a grammar school education. His astronomical career was determined by the occurrence of two eclipses of the sun???one when he was five, the other when he was nine. He went to Paris and studied, "on nothing a year." He passed the examinations for the Observatory and at 16 was the author of the first of his numerous works, a treatise on the Cosmos. His remarkable career...