Capitolo 40
Thucydides and Homer. October 6 I had a letter from Charles
Musgrave, introducing Challis that succeeded me to the Cambridge
Observatory in 1836.
"To this point my afflicted and poor father was suffering of very from a
severe form of rheumatism or it grieves in the legs that sometimes
prevents him to go together with bed for weeks.
"In the day of Commemoration, Dec. 18, I received my prize as
man of first category in the Room again. Next day I walked to Bury, and
vacationed there and to Playford.
"I returned to Cambridge in January. 24, 1822. On Feb. 12 I held mine
before Acts, with the great compliments from the Moderator, and with a more anymore
great presence unusually of auditors of the accounts. These disputes on
the mathematics, in Latin they are now stopped. March 20 I held a
first Opponency against Sandys. Around this duration I received Buckle a,
Trinity equips really per annum of mine that generally it was supposed to come following
after Drinkwater as pupil. On my sheets I find integrals and
differential equations of some kind, astronomic corrections (of
what I prepared a book), the opportunities, the comets of Englefield, investigation
of the brightness inside a rainbow, test of the theorem of Clairaut in the one
case, metacentres changes of independent variable they applied a
complicated case, generating functions, principal axes. In April. 8 me
understood to write an account of my eye: I was tormented then with a
double image, I suppose from of the illness of the stomach: and in May
28 I find from a sketch of the aspect of a lamp that the illness
of my continued eye.
"On Feb. 11 I gave a paper to Peacock of Mr on the change of the focal one
length of a telescope as directed with or against the Earth it is orbital
motion (on the theory of issues) what you/he/she was written out for reading
to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on Feb. 24 and 25. [This
Society that I think was then around one old year.] On Feb. 1 my Mrs. on
Precession, Solar Inequality, and Nutation was made complete.
"The important examination for Scholarships was now approaching himself/herself/itself. As me