Re: Who inspired you into astronomy?

From: Howard Lester (heylester_at_dakotacom.net)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:22:40 -0700

"Ben Bradley" wrote

> >That was the only time in my life, I believe, that I ever attempted to
> >enhance an academic situation on my own. Makes one wonder a little about
how
> >life "works."

> I did a lot more of that in high school (though this was instead
> of, not in addition to what I was supposed to study), reading all the
> Asimov books (fiction and non-fiction) in the library. I enjoyed his
> writings about science history - I remember the story about the guy
> who thought up making crown and flint glass lenses to make a compound
> achromatic lens: to keep his idea secret he sent the spec for one lens
> to one maker, and the spec for the other lens to another.
> Unfortunately, they were both busy and subbed the jobs out to a
> subcontractor who figured out that these two lenses went together...
> I've got a lot more to write, I'll write a response off the
> original post.

I look forward to it. I want to clarify what I wrote, above: During
elementary and high school and college I continued my own studies in
astronomy, as you might expect. However in no other academic subject studied
in school did I ever go out on my own to read more than what was assigned...
at least in terms of pure academics.

When I finally got to take an intro astronomy class in college, I wrote my
term paper before the semester began. I still have it!

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