Biographical Memoir of Cleveland ABBE, 1838-1916, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint) epub
Biographical Memoir of Cleveland ABBE, 1838-1916, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint) epub
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Author: William Jackson Humphreys
Page Count: 52 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781330482698
File size: 28 Mb
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Excerpt from Biographical Memoir of Cleveland Abbe, 1838-1916, Vol. 8 In reference to this characteristic an admiring friend, writing of him as he knew him in his later life, says: "From the first I was impressed with his broad interests, extending not only outside of meteorology and astronomy to the other sciences, but to philosophy, art, and literature. His knowledge was very broad; his reading comprehensive. I remember, when living at his home, seeing him very early in the morning sitting in his library reading the Encyclopedia Britannica. He told me that he was reading it through consecutively." During his school days he had the advantage of spending his summer vacations in the country with his grandfather, Moses Cleveland Abbe, near Windham, Conn. On these occasions the future meteorologist, it is said, sometimes found it more pleasant to loll in the shade and contemplate on the beauty and mysteries of the floating clouds than to help his worthy ancestor with the exacting duties of the farm. But the youthful dreamer was ever subject to the old gentleman's wholesome admonition to the effect that "boys that don't work don't eat," and so it happened that these summer vacations furnished both healthful exercise and abundant opportunity to get acquainted with many natural phenomena of absorbing interest. Early in his life, indeed when he was only eight years old, there happened a trivial occurrence which perhaps should be recorded, as it seems to have had an important influence on his entire intellectual career. This was the gift to him by his mother of "Smellie's Philosophy of Nature," a remarkable book by the editor and in great part author of the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. This he pored over as a boy, kept sacred in his library throughout the whole of his active career, and so frequently and feelingly alluded to during his last illness that in loving tenderness it was placed in his hands as a fit companion during his long rest beneath the oaks and the roses of beautiful Rock Creek Cemetery. Professor Abbe was twice married and on each occasion most happily. His first marriage, May 10, 1870, was to Miss Frances Martha Neal, daughter of David Neal of Cincinnati. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Biographical Memoir of Cleveland ABBE, 1838-1916, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint). William Jackson Humphreys
Author: William Jackson Humphreys
Page Count: 52 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9781330482698
File size: 28 Mb
File Name: Biographical.Memoir.of.Cleveland.ABBE,.1838-1916,.Vol..8.(Classic.Reprint).pdf
Download Link: Biographical Memoir of Cleveland ABBE, 1838-1916, Vol. 8 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Biographical Memoir of Cleveland Abbe, 1838-1916, Vol. 8 In reference to this characteristic an admiring friend, writing of him as he knew him in his later life, says: "From the first I was impressed with his broad interests, extending not only outside of meteorology and astronomy to the other sciences, but to philosophy, art, and literature. His knowledge was very broad; his reading comprehensive. I remember, when living at his home, seeing him very early in the morning sitting in his library reading the Encyclopedia Britannica. He told me that he was reading it through consecutively." During his school days he had the advantage of spending his summer vacations in the country with his grandfather, Moses Cleveland Abbe, near Windham, Conn. On these occasions the future meteorologist, it is said, sometimes found it more pleasant to loll in the shade and contemplate on the beauty and mysteries of the floating clouds than to help his worthy ancestor with the exacting duties of the farm. But the youthful dreamer was ever subject to the old gentleman's wholesome admonition to the effect that "boys that don't work don't eat," and so it happened that these summer vacations furnished both healthful exercise and abundant opportunity to get acquainted with many natural phenomena of absorbing interest. Early in his life, indeed when he was only eight years old, there happened a trivial occurrence which perhaps should be recorded, as it seems to have had an important influence on his entire intellectual career. This was the gift to him by his mother of "Smellie's Philosophy of Nature," a remarkable book by the editor and in great part author of the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. This he pored over as a boy, kept sacred in his library throughout the whole of his active career, and so frequently and feelingly alluded to during his last illness that in loving tenderness it was placed in his hands as a fit companion during his long rest beneath the oaks and the roses of beautiful Rock Creek Cemetery. Professor Abbe was twice married and on each occasion most happily. His first marriage, May 10, 1870, was to Miss Frances Martha Neal, daughter of David Neal of Cincinnati. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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