"A Short History of Nearly Everything" summary & Term 1 Blog #42

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Mr Olson, you need us to summarize what u read to us during applied skills today right? here it is.
There's a guy called Bouguer in the lease pleasant science school called the Royal French Academy of Sciences. in 1735, ppl tried to figure out how old, how big the earth was, and how it hung in space. A person measured 200 miles around the earth, and everyone became hectic.
A guy called Edmung Halley, sea captain, astronomer invented a map. He also wrote about opium and was a devoted alchemist. Halley and Rein talked about celetial objects circling in an elipse. 40 shillings were given to anyone who can explain why. Cook said he knew but won't tell anyone. Halley went to Cambridge to talk to Newton. Newton built his own lab. _________ (dont remember name) stared at sun for longest time possible. He got away with it, but had to stay in a dark room for a few days. He also stuck a needle through his eye to ssee what happens. He studied calculas in highschool and didnt tell anyone for 3 years, and devoted most of his life on alchemy.