Harold Jacoby Quote

The division of the stars into constellations tells us very little about the stars, but a great deal about the minds of the earliest civilizations and of the mediaeval astronomers.


Physics and Philosophy, Chapter II (p. 54), Dover Publications. 1981


The division of the stars into constellations tells us very little about the stars, but a great deal about the minds of the earliest civilizations...

The division of the stars into constellations tells us very little about the stars, but a great deal about the minds of the earliest civilizations...

The division of the stars into constellations tells us very little about the stars, but a great deal about the minds of the earliest civilizations...

The division of the stars into constellations tells us very little about the stars, but a great deal about the minds of the earliest civilizations...