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David Gill, Man and Astronomer Memories of Sir David Gill, KCB, HM Astronomer (18791907) at the Cape of Good Hope

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LE volume publié par Sir David Gill en 1913 décrit son euvre essentielle, mais ne renseigne pas sur l'homme même. Aujourd'hui, une plume autorisée fait connaitre sa vaste intelligence, son caractère, son désintéres̀sement, ses qualités du cœur. Un de ses amis, M. G. Forbes, en a peint un portrait dont les astronomes lui seront toujours reconnaissants. C'est la lecture de la correspondance laigement reproduite dans ce livre qui l'a mis en tat de pénétrer cette personnalité si ouverte et si franhe. Gill étaittrès réservé, et peut-tre seule une femme connait le bien quil a fait, révélé; par des lettres dont hi publication est impossible.

David Gill, Man and Astronomer. Memories of Sir David Gill, K.C.B., H.M. Astronomer (18791907) at the Cape of Good Hope.

Collected and arranged by George Forbes, F. R. S. Pp. xi + 418. (London: John Murray, 1916.) Price 12s. net.

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BAILLAUD, B. David Gill, Man and Astronomer Memories of Sir David Gill, KCB, HM Astronomer (18791907) at the Cape of Good Hope . Nature 99, 161–162 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099161a0

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