Discoverers of the Universe by Hoskin Michael A

Author:Hoskin, Michael A.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Figure 14. Clay Hall in Old Windsor, where the Herschels lived from June 1785 to March 1786. Herschel Family Archives.

Albert's three-year lease was to end the following spring on March 257 (Lady Day, the customary date for the transfer of a property), and William and Caroline arranged to rent the house (figure 15). They swept at Clay Hall for the last time on March 28, and the following day we find William writing letters from Slough; on April 4 Watson arrived there in the hope that the move was already complete enough for him to have a bed for the night. The 20-foot had been erected at Slough on the third, and that evening William and Caroline had made a first, token sweep (figure 16); but William still had to determine the direction of due south, and the clocks had been disturbed by the move, and so it would be a couple of weeks before serious work could resume.

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