Agnes Mary Clerke Quote

A so-called "new astronomy" has grown up by the side of the old. One aspect of its advent has been to render the science of the heavenly bodies more popular... than formerly.... It has thus become practicable to describe in simple language the most essential parts of recent astronomical discoveries.


A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century (1885)


A so-called new astronomy has grown up by the side of the old. One aspect of its advent has been to render the science of the heavenly bodies more...

A so-called new astronomy has grown up by the side of the old. One aspect of its advent has been to render the science of the heavenly bodies more...

A so-called new astronomy has grown up by the side of the old. One aspect of its advent has been to render the science of the heavenly bodies more...

A so-called new astronomy has grown up by the side of the old. One aspect of its advent has been to render the science of the heavenly bodies more...