The Astronomer of Cambridge

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The Astronomer of Cambridge ACT I — THE SIGNAL The rain fell on Cambridge like a judgment. Dr. William Hartwell stood alone in the Royal Observatory's domed chamber, his breath fogging the cold glass of the telescope eyepiece. It was the thirty-seventh night of March, 1887, and the brass instruments of the observatory gleamed in the gaslight like the skeleton of some great mechanical beast....

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