MD - Deep Duck - Chapter 10 (Ewing)

[Monte Davis]

NICE work!
On Feb 15, 2015 1:16 PM, "Becky Lindroos" <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:

> Another thing -  while doing a bit of research on this sermon,  I
> discovered that the guy to whom Mason gave his journals just prior to his
> death was one John Ewing in Philadelphia and that he was a Rev’d.
>
> For our fiction,  Cherrycoke is a Revd and apparently a close friend of
> Mason.  They are both very interested in astronomy, one as a professional
> the other as a lay-person.  I think this character may have been inspired
> by the Revd John Ewing, a  Presbyterian minister and Provost of Univ of
> Penn - also apparently a friend, certainly more than an acquaintance, of
> the real life Mason and also interested in astronomy (observed two Transits
> of Venus, anyway).
>
> ** How the volume arrived at Penn is unknown. The earliest record of it
> being present in the library comes from May 1914. There is some possibility
> it came to Penn thanks to the fact that upon Mason’s death in Philadelphia
> in 1786 he left many of his books and papers to Rev. John Ewing, an early
> provost at Penn. See Cope and Ewing, “The Astronomical Manuscripts Which
> Charles Mason Gave to Provost the Reverend John Ewing during October 1786,”
> Proceedings of the APS 96.4 (1952), 417-423.  -Editor **
> https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/the-transit-of-venus-2/
>
>
> John Ewing
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ewing_(pastor)
>
> http://www.mdlpp.org/pdf/library/FactandFiction.pdf
> "The Astronomical Manuscripts which Charles Mason Gave to Provost the
> Reverend John Ewing during Oct. 1786," co-authored with H. W. Robinson,
> PAPS, Aug 1952
>
> *!*!*!*   http://www.mdlpp.org/pdf/library/FactandFiction.pdf
>
> etc.
> Becky
>
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