John Pringle Nichol Quote

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.


The Stellar Universe, Conclusion (p. 223), John Johnstone. 1848


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...

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...

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...

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...