Herbert Alonzo Howe Quote

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


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...