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Halley's Quest A Selfless Genius and His Troubled Paramore (2005) / Chapter Skim
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Epilogue
Pages 193-194

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... To this student of Halley's adventures, the longitude marker conjures a mixture of both his failed and successful quests. It was his quest to solve the problem of longitude that drew him to the Royal Observatory during his undergraduate days -- and that quest on which he would write one of his final papers and continue working to the end of his life.
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From page 194...
... But to conceive an adequate knowledge of the excellencies of this great man, the reader must have recourse to his writings, in which all the sciences are in the most beautiful and perspicacious manner illustrated and improved. As when living he was so highly esteemed by his countrymen, gratitude re quires that his memory should be respected for posterity.
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