Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine,  3 (1854–55), 297–[301].

Domestic Trials

Hedonia

Genre:

Short Fiction

Subjects:

Astronomy, Measurement, Observation, Time, Instruments


    Observes that a character, Harry Woodford, counted the noises of eggs hatching 'with all the precision of an astronomer noting the ticks of his chronometer during the transit of a planet across the lines of his object-glass' (299).



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