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Many who knew him not otherwise, knew perhaps have in their gardens his louvre-boarded screen for instruments. But the great achievement of his life was, of course, in optics as applied to lighthouse illumination.
Many who knew him not otherwise, knew perhaps have in their gardens his louvre-boarded screen for instruments. But the great achievement of his life was, of course, in optics as applied to lighthouse illumination.
Indeed, most things served him to that end: the sound of the bells from all the neighbouring villages, the smell of the forest, the visits and the behaviour of both birds and fishes, the look of the plants in his garden, the disposition of cloud, the colour of the light, and last, although not least, the arsenal of meteorological instruments in a louvre-boarded hutch upon the lawn.
Indeed, most things served him to that end: the sound of the bells from all the neighbouring villages, the smell of the forest, the visits and the behaviour of both birds and fishes, the look of the plants in his garden, the disposition of cloud, the colour of the light, and last, although not least, the arsenal of meteorological instruments in a louvre-boarded hutch upon the lawn.
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