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building which the Admiralty acknowledged: "Though science is much respected by their Lordships and your paper is much esteemed, it is too learned." Young was also appointed as Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac and Secretary of the Board of Longitude. In this he was unable to satisfy the demands both of the navigators and of the astronomers, incurring the displeasure of both. A bibliography of the writings of Thomas Young shows seven works, seventy-four papers published. Undoubtedly there were written also hundreds of letters on as many subjects to the great men of his day.