Docno: ADMS-03-02-02-0001-0010-0006
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 1786-11-06
We recited this morning for the first time in Ferguson's astronomy. The part which
I have read is pleasing, and the study in itself is as agreeable, as it is useful
and important.
1 Mr. Williams began his course of astronomical Lectures this morning. The class attend
in two divisions. He gave us the Theory of the earth's motion. We observed the Sun
through a telescope; and saw several clusters of those spots which are mentioned in
astronomical books. Mr. W told us, that he once saw one of them divide in two, while
he was looking through the glass. He was to have given us a view of the moon this
evening but could not because the weather was cloudy.