THE STORY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE 



JOSIAH WEDGWOOD 

 From a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds 



his hands. Meantime his sister, always his chief lieuten- 

 ant, cheers him with her presence, and from time to time 

 puts food into his mouth. The telescope completed, the 

 astronomer turns night into day, and from sunset to sun- 

 rise, year in and year out, sweeps the heavens unceas- 



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