Harold Jacoby Quote

A generation ago, men thought the "perfect science," for so we love to, call astronomy, could advance only by increasing a little the exact precision of observation.


Practical Talks by an Astronomer, The Pole Star (p. 19), Charles Scribner's Sons. 1902


A generation ago, men thought the perfect science, for so we love to, call astronomy, could advance only by increasing a little the exact precision...

A generation ago, men thought the perfect science, for so we love to, call astronomy, could advance only by increasing a little the exact precision...

A generation ago, men thought the perfect science, for so we love to, call astronomy, could advance only by increasing a little the exact precision...

A generation ago, men thought the perfect science, for so we love to, call astronomy, could advance only by increasing a little the exact precision...