"There are in astronomy refinements of method, both practical and theoretical, which can be appreciated only by rare gifts and profound study. But the elementary methods are quite within the reach of ordinary minds. The , which it was difficult to discover, may be very easily understood and its results readily traced. It might require a Newton or a La Place to unveil the mechanism of the heavens, but when that is once done every beholder may watch the wonderful evolutions."
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(quote from p. 85; from Four Lectures on Astronomy, delivered in 1858 at the )
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Alexis Caswell
(January 29, 1799 – January 8, 1877) was an American Baptist minister, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and professor at . He was, from 1868 to 1872, president of Brown University and, in 1857, president of the (AAAS). In 1875 he was elected a Fellow of the AAAS.
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