Judged by the eye alone, the Milky Way is one of the most delicately beautiful phenomena in the entire realm of nature - a shimmer of silvery gauze stretched across the sky; but studied in the light of its revelations, it is the most stupendous object presented to human ken.


Curiosities of the Sky, Chapter II (p. 17), Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1909


Judged by the eye alone, the Milky Way is one of the most delicately beautiful phenomena in the entire realm of nature - a shimmer of silvery gauze...

Judged by the eye alone, the Milky Way is one of the most delicately beautiful phenomena in the entire realm of nature - a shimmer of silvery gauze...

Judged by the eye alone, the Milky Way is one of the most delicately beautiful phenomena in the entire realm of nature - a shimmer of silvery gauze...

Judged by the eye alone, the Milky Way is one of the most delicately beautiful phenomena in the entire realm of nature - a shimmer of silvery gauze...