The Ashes of Ashworth Hall
The frost took Edmund Ashworth on a Tuesday in November, eighteen hundred and forty-two. He was thirty-eight years old, and he died as he had lived: surrounded by charts pinned to cork boards, bottles of ink lining the narrow shelves of his study at Cambridge Observatory, and a half-finished star map lying open on his mahogany desk. The map covered the region around the north celestial pole—a...
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