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“…a knife-edge index…”
Maury, M. F., & United States Naval Observatory. (1856). Astronomical observations made under the direction of M.F. Maury, Lieut. U.S. Navy during the year 1848 at the National Observatory, Washington. Washington, D.C., p. vii.
“…he could predict the appearance of a stat…”
See “…he came here alone…,” above.
Maury, M. F. (1855). Address delivered before the literary societies of the University of Virginia, on the 28th of June, 1855. Richmond: H.K. Ellyson's Steam Presses, p. 23.
“It looked like a cannon…”
See “…transit instrument…,” above.
“As God had told Abram…”
From a galley page of an unpublished book by Maury, probably intended as a textbook for students. The five pages dedicated to Astronomy are held in the Matthew Fontaine Maury materials at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
This portion of the manuscript has been inadvertently obscured (and the document was not available to researchers at the time I was doing my research). I think the context makes it clear that it is a reference to Abram and Genesis 15:5.
“…Job and the patriarch…”
From a galley page of an unpublished book by Maury, probably intended as a textbook for students. The five pages dedicated to Astronomy are held in the Matthew Fontaine Maury materials at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
“…the flaming path of the comet…”
Maury, M. F. (1855). Address delivered before the literary societies of the University of Virginia, on the 28th of June, 1855. Richmond: H.K. Ellyson's Steam Presses, p. 24.
“…so did God compel ravens…”
A reference to I Kings 17:3.
Maury, M. F. (1855). Address delivered before the literary societies of the University of Virginia, on the 28th of June, 1855. Richmond: H.K. Ellyson's Steam Presses, p. 24.
“…moving steadily through her field of vision.”
See “One afternoon in 1855…,” above.
Maury, M. F. (1855). Address delivered before the literary societies of the University of Virginia, on the 28th of June, 1855. Richmond: H.K. Ellyson's Steam Presses, p. 23.