. Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch . g Sir WilliamHerschel, Professor Airy, the then Professor of Mathemat-ics at Cambridge and later Astronomer Royal, Sir JamesMackintosh of Edinburgh, and the famous mathematicianof London, Charles Babbage, for whom he soon began tohave the strongest feelings of friendship and description of the wonderful calculating machine,the invention of this remarkable man, and of the numerousconversations, in which the older man opened his heart tohis young friend, are charmingly given in journal letterswritten many years later to my sis
. Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch . g Sir WilliamHerschel, Professor Airy, the then Professor of Mathemat-ics at Cambridge and later Astronomer Royal, Sir JamesMackintosh of Edinburgh, and the famous mathematicianof London, Charles Babbage, for whom he soon began tohave the strongest feelings of friendship and description of the wonderful calculating machine,the invention of this remarkable man, and of the numerousconversations, in which the older man opened his heart tohis young friend, are charmingly given in journal letterswritten many years later to my sister. His visits to the London hospitals and his attendanceupon the clinics of some of the eminent men of this timeseem to have made an unfavorable impression upon him,with the methods of his beloved teacher, Louis, fresh inhis mind, and he did not hesitate in his letters to makecomparisons strongly in favor of the latter. TO HIS FATHER. London, August 8, I last wrote to you I have dined at with many scientific gentlemen, and a very. // :-.; LIFE IN EUROPE 53 pleasant time I had, I assure you. Mr. Baily is quitewealthy and owns a very beautiful estate in thewest end of the city. Before dinner he showed agreat number of the original letters of Flamsteed toAbraham Sharp, which throw much light upon thecharacter of Sir Isaac Newton and others who werehis contemporaries. Mr. Baily intends publishingthem. He read one extract which seems to show SirIsaac not to have been such a mild and good-naturedphilosopher as his biographers have generally de-scribed him to have been. Flamsteed is speakingof an interview he has had with Sir Isaac. The latter,it appears, wished that the Royal Society, of whichhe was president, should have the control of Green-wich Observatory. I told him, observes Flam-steed, that all the instruments were my own andthat I had bought them with my own money, altercation increased, and at length he (SirIsaac) fired and called me all sorts o
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