of the 17th. The most important of these features circumstances such nonmeteorologists as Wheatstone, 



were the spread throughout the western world of the Henry, Hough, Wild, and Secci had the temerity to 



spirit that had animated the scientific societies of range over the whole of the not yet compartmented 



Florence and London, the continued popularity of branches of science and technology, fully confident 



the astronomical observatory as an object of the that they were capable of finding thereby a solution 



philanthropy of an affluent society, and the continued to any problem important enough to warrant their 



existence of the nonspecialized scientist. Under these attention. 



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