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Heroes of the Telegraph
·
John Munro
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At
the
beginning
of
October
1806,
the
armies
of
Napoleon
were
moving
towards
the
Saale,
and
ere
the
middle
of
the
month
the
battles
of
Auerstadt
and
Jena
were
fought
and
lost.
Duke
Charles
Ferdinand
was
mortally
wounded,
and
taken
back
to
Braunschweig.
A
deputation
waited
on
the
offended
Emperor
at
Halle,
and
begged
him
to
allow
the
aged
duke
to
die
in
his
own
house.
They
were
brutally
denied
by
the
Emperor,
and
returned
to
Braunschweig
to
try
and
save
the
unhappy
duke
from
imprisonment.
One
evening
in
the
late
autumn,
Gauss,
who
lived
in
the
Steinweg
(or
Causeway),
saw
an
invalid
carriage
drive
slowly
out
of
the
castle
garden
towards
the
Wendenthor.
It
contained
the
wounded
duke
on
his
way
to
Altona,
where
he
died
on
November
10,
1806,
in
a
small
house
at
Ottensen,
'You
will
take
care,'
wrote
Zach
to
Gauss,
in
1803,
'that
his
great
name
shall
also
be
written
on
the
firmament.'
For
a
year
and
a
half
after
the
death
of
the
duke
Gauss
continued
in
Braunschweig,
but
his
small
allowance,
and
the
absence
of
scientific
company
made
a
change
desirable.
Through
Olbers
and
Heeren
he
received
a
call
to
the
directorate
of
Gottingen
University
in
1807,
and
at
once
accepted
it.
He
took
a
house
near
the
chemical
laboratory,
to
which
he
brought
his
wife
and
family.
The
building
of
the
observatory,
delayed
for
want
of
funds,
was
finished
in
1816,
and
a
year
or
two
later
it
was
fully
equipped
with
instruments.
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