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The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

John Pringle Nichol

We have gazed awhile upon the gorgeous firmaments of space, and descried not a trace, not a hint, of anything like an end to their number, or a boundary to their unrepeated variety of form.

John Pringle Nichol

John Pringle Nichol

John Pringle Nichol

Born: January 13, 1804

Died: September 19, 1859 (aged 55)

Bio: John Pringle Nichol was a Scottish educator, phrenologist, astronomer and economist who did much to popularise astronomy in a manner that appealed to nineteenth century tastes.

Known for:

Views of the architecture of the heavens (1837)

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