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fever, contracted under, and fed upon, dis-
appointment and exhaustion. Those were
not the days when men could adopt as a
profession the ”research of endowment.”
Before taking leave of Kepler, who was
by no means a man of one idea, it ought
to be here recorded that he was the first
to suggest that a telescope made with both
lenses convex (not a Galilean telescope) can
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