Last Weeks in Paris

[sierra_le_oli]

So what to do in my last days/weeks here? Apart from packing boxes and wondering why I brought so many books to Paris that is. I've made a list of things that I'd still like to do but I think I have time for about half of them.

Last night I went to the Paris Blogue-t-il? meet and wound up speaking even more English than last time. It wasn't just

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[sshi]

I've been discovering something similar here in Germany - the better someone's English is, the more they desperately want to practise it. And here's me wanting to practise my German...

[bellinghman]

I just noticed - in my address book, I have two entries for you.

Both are Lage Rijndijk 126a ... yep, I think I'm seriously behind in pruning/updating.

As for telescopes - we observed the transit of Venus with the aid of an 1838 telescope at bellinghwoman's workplace. (This is the telescope that specifically was not used to discover Neptune.)

[sierra_le_oli]

Ooh, telescope coolness. But, specifically not used to discover Neptune? Sounds like there's a story there, or not?

[bellinghman]

Doing a bit more research: here.

Challis actually saw Neptune through this telescope, recording its position on the 4th August 1846. Neptune was actually officially discovered the following month.

[sierra_le_oli]

Thanks for the link. I hadn't realised Challis was at Cambridge. I remember that he just missed out because of not following up whereas Galileo seems to have had just plain bad luck.

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[anonymous]

Hi
Good to talk to you at PBTI 3. French people speaking english ? Where ? Oups ... Bon voyage, bonne continuation et peut etre a une prochaine fois ! Ton français est excellent !
Amicalement
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