Australian who was the first to explore the Arctic by airplane (1888-1958)

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Enoch had borrowed it from Wilkins with the implicit promise to treat it kindly, and so rather than mounting into the saddle he led it by the reins down Grantham’s high street and in the direction of the school, chatting to it.

It wasn’t a serious fire, but it accomplished what Wilkins wanted it to: wrecked the mask of etiquette that Drake had set over me, and set my tongue a-run.

So I simply told Wilkins the truth: I had no interest in religion, at least as a profession, and wanted only to be a natural philosopher like Boyle or Huygens.

But before Daniel could matriculate, the Restoration had forced Wilkins out.

For Daniel had been living in London, and could have spent as much time as he pleased with Wilkins, and gone to all the meetings of the Royal Society, and learnt everything he might have cared to know of Natural Philosophy simply by walking across town.

Instead he went up to Trinity a few months after Wilkins had left it behind forever.

Ever since his meeting with Wilkins, he had wanted only to be a Natural Philosopher.

A letter he’d received from Wilkins, with an enclosure from one Robert Hooke, during a rare spate of mail last week.

But the letter from Wilkins, and the enclosure from Hooke—a Wilkins protégé from his Oxford days, and now Curator of Experiments of the Royal Society—contained certain requests.

But he suspected that Wilkins and Hooke did not care for excuses any more than Drake did.

Daniel went round and re-shelved the books, holding back two or three newish ones that Wilkins had asked him to fetch.

I need to know,” Wilkins added apologetically, “only so that I can write him the occasional letter claiming that you are doing it.

Hooke peers at something with his Microscope he finds that it is divided up into small compartments, each one just like its neighbors, like bricks in a wall,” Wilkins confided.

Frequently Charles Comstock, the fifteen-year-old son of their noble host, came to visit, and to hear Wilkins or Hooke talk.

A few miles away in Epsom, Wilkins had finished the Ark digression and begun to draw up a grammar, and a system of writing, for his Philosophical Language.