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...Naval Observatory in Washington. He also observed Jupiter and Saturn and, according to AA Rambaut, he was one of the first, if not the very first, to notice the proper motion of Jupiter's Red Spot. Burton, shortly before his death at the age of 35,...

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...established in 1806 by the Rowland boys' father. This elder Rowland, by the way, owned a clipper ship; and he was one of the first, if not the very first, to install steamboat service between Norfolk and New York. When the war began, Thomas Rowland entered...

...Nantucket. With a small spy-glass he caught an early sight of Halley's comet, at its last return in 1835. He was one of the first, if not the very first, to see it in this country. Mr. Mitchell was familiar with meteorological ' phenomena, of which he kept...

...he volunteered his services, helped by his pen to establish the constitution under which we live, as he was one of the first, if not the very first to make a proposition for its formation, which he did in 1785, in his " Sketches of American Policy ;"...