This is just wonderful, a fine detective story and written so humanely. Time well spent.
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Monica H Green
"The portrait of Francis Williams is the only painting ever made of Halley’s comet in 1759, on its momentous first predicted return." What a fabulous story! A long read for a long weekend: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... #histsci #Astronomy
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