CSPAN3 Detroit Observatory November 17, 2013
On not only literature but also scientific curriculum and you learned by doing. So not just reading from a book and standing up and reciting, but conducting experiments on your own. Learning to use the tools and push the frontiers of knowledge so you are adding something to the scientific knowledge of the whole. And so tappan really wanted to institute that here. And in the 1850s, astronomy and observations, observatories were fundamental to lots of other sciences. In part because the math is just ferocious. So if you understand the math to be able to operate a telescope like this, then you un...