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Janssen’s name would be forever linked to Norman Lockyer, an English astronomer who came to astronomy by chance. As a matter of fact, Norman Lockyer never had a formal course in science. He was more like William Huggins than Janssen in this regard.
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A. J. Meadows, Science and controversy: A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1972).
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A. W. à Beckett, Recollections of a Humorist (Pitman:1907), 25.
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This was during the Crimean War.
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A report on the reformation of the War Office in 1865 noted that its aim was ‘to improve the efficiency of the establishment and getting the clerks to understand that they are paid for work and not for literary distinction’.
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For example, the debate on the evolution of species often started at the British Association meetings.
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The British Association Lunar Committee finally did not deliver a lunar map, although the work was carried on for a while. The interest in changes in lunar surface died away in 1870s.
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Joseph N. Lockyer, “Spectroscopic observations of the Sun,” Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol. 15 (1866), 258.
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Cooke died on October 19, 1868, the very day Lockyer succeeded in his experiments on red flames with the new spectroscope made by Browning.
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Nath, B.B. (2013). Norman Lockyer, Clerk Turned Astronomer. In: The Story of Helium and the Birth of Astrophysics. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5363-5_6
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