Capitolo 82
Keswick that we have manufactured a lot of excursions in the District of Lake, visited Mr
Southey and Mr Wordsworth, come down a coal mine to Whitehaven, and
returned to Edensor speaking of Ambleside, Kendal and Manchester.
With different excursions in Derbyshire our trip ended, and we returned
to Cambridge on July 21.
"During this Long Vacation I had a private pupil, Crawford, the only one
pupil this year and the last that me I ever had. There is to this point
on my papers an infinity of optic investigations: also a plan of a
eye-piece with a lens of concave to destroy the certain aberrations. On
August. 20 I went to Woodford to see Messrs Gilbert it is optic
jobs. From August. 13 I was preparing for the discussion of the
Greenwich Solar Errors, and I had a man to job in my rooms, busy
on the calculation of the Errors. I wrote to Bouvard to Paris for
observations of the sun, but he recommended me to wait for the Tables
what Bessel was preparing. I was also busy on my Lectures: on
Sept. 29 I have a set of plans of typographic presses from Hansard the
printing (who in a visit in Cambridge you/he/she had found me making enquiries
around them), and I corresponded with Messrs Gilbert around optic
constructions, and with W. AND S. Jones, Eastons and others around
pomps, hydraulic rams & the c. On Sept. 25 a very magnificent they happened
Aurora Borealis.
"I don't find when the investigation of Corrections of Solar Elements
you/he/she was ended, or when my Extracts from Burckhardt, the des of Connaissance
Temps 1816, were done. But these conducted me to suspect an unknown
the inequality in the motion of the Sun. On Sept. 27 and 28 I find the
first suspects of an inequality that it depends on 8 xes the bad longitude of
Venus--13 xes the bad longitude of Earth. The thing appeared to promise this way
what I started the investigation of the perturbation reported to this
you call, and it continued him/it (a very hard-working job) as fast as me I was able,
although with the various interruptions that in fact it was necessary to