Browsing: Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 2

Mr. Burr went to an Ordination, and consequently we had no reciting in the afternoon. Mr. Williams had a Lecture to demonstrate the truth of the copernican System, at 3, and in the evening: he shew us the planet Venus, which through a telescope, appears shaped like the moon, and was this evening horned. She {p. 127} is quite small view'd through our glasses, which magnify objects 90 Times.