Herbert Alonzo Howe - A study of the sky (1896)

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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.

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The starry spheres which roll and shine, uncounted millions, in the infinite depths of space call us away from the common things of earth, and bid us plume our spirits for the loftiest flights.

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Ingenious and powerful instruments have been devised, which reveal wonders otherwise unimagined, and the end is not yet. Each new telescopic giant is expected to win fresh laurels in old fields of endeavor, or to make discoveries which shall link its name forever with the stars.

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