Brief biography and popular account of the unparalleled discoveries of T.J.J. See (1913)
Webb, W. L. (William Larkin), b. 1856 · Lynn, Mass. T.P. Nichols · leaf 130
htthat Dr. See was making a mistake to give up his mathematicalresearches, even temporarily, to do telescopic work; but Dr. Seehad before him the example of the two Herschels, and wisely de-cided that intimate knowledge of the heavens was as necessarynow as it was a century ago. He rightly believed… … UNPARALLELED DISCOVERIES OF T. J. J. SEE 63 establishing a New Science of Cosmogony (1910), itis certain thathis intuition of 1896 was right; for no one but an astronomer ofthe widest experience could have sustained this comprehensivecreative effort, which marks one of the greatest epochs in…
See, Thomas Jefferson Jackson, 1866 · Astronomy
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