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Topic: quotation
Replies: 21   Last Post: Aug 27, 1996 12:42 PM

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Paul J. Bell

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Posted: Aug 14, 1996 11:47 AM
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a friend and i have a different opinion regarding the author of the following quotation:

"Also the astronomers surely will not have to continue to exercise the
patience which is required for computation. It is this that deters them
from computing or correcting tables, from the construction of
Ephemerides, from working on hypotheses, anf form discussions of
observations with each other. For it is unworthy of excellent men to
lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely
be relegated to anyone else if machines were used."

said friend thinks that the author was Leibniz and i think that it was Gauss.
opinions, please, with a reference, if possible.

cheers,
-paul

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