Agnes Mary Clerke - The System Of The Stars (1890)

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Comets encountering these precincts must be perplexed to decide between the two potentates claiming their allegiance, and perhaps on occasions pay their court to each in turns, throwing out tails, as they do so, in all sorts of anomalous and contradictory directions.

Agnes Mary Clerke

Thus, not merely what it can do, but the rate at which it can do it, has to be considered in estimating the value of photography as an ally in astronomy.

Agnes Mary Clerke

An attempt to combine, in a general survey, some definite particulars of knowledge regarding our sidereal surroundings.

Agnes Mary Clerke

Access to the nebular heavens can be gained only by making the very most of the little light they send us.

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When all the stars blaze out on a clear, moonless night, it seems as if it would be impossible to count them...

Agnes Mary Clerke

Progress, then, is the law of the universe. From its present state we can obscurely argue a "has been" and a "shall be."

Agnes Mary Clerke

The cardinal truth emerging from these inquiries is that of the extreme isolation of the solar system. A skiff in the midst of a vast unfurrowed ocean is not more utterly alone.

Agnes Mary Clerke