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His father strongly disapproved: “Fly without a pause from Calypso
and all her enchantments; dread her more than rocks and storms”,
he warned. “You are too young and inexperienced in the arts
of woman to see your danger… Tear your self away.”
In October 1789, the affair over, Boulton moved on to Bad Langensalza,
to study with the renowned chemist Johann Wiegleb. A year later,
he planned to visit mines in Saxony and Bohemia, but it was finally
time to come home.His father wanted him back at Soho: “I am
desirous that you should seriously turn your thoughts to actual
business, and be established in it before I die.”
Left: Matthew Boulton's joke version of the French scientist
Reaumur's temperature scale, sent to his son in Germany
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