The astronomer, whether in charge of an elaborate observatory, filled with costly instruments, or simply the possessor of a good opera-glass, or small portable telescope, is the man who by patient study of the sky adds to the sum total of astronomical knowledge.


A Study of the Sky, Chapter VII (p. 113), Charles Scribner's Sons. 1901

Herbert Alonzo Howe Quotes

The astronomer, whether in charge of an elaborate observatory, filled with costly instruments, or simply the possessor of a good opera-glass, or...

The astronomer, whether in charge of an elaborate observatory, filled with costly instruments, or simply the possessor of a good opera-glass, or...

The astronomer, whether in charge of an elaborate observatory, filled with costly instruments, or simply the possessor of a good opera-glass, or...

The astronomer, whether in charge of an elaborate observatory, filled with costly instruments, or simply the possessor of a good opera-glass, or...