Samuel Pierpont Langley Quote

The sun, as we shall learn later, is a star, and not a particularly large star. It is, as has been said, "only a private in the host of heaven," but it is one of that host; it is one of those glittering points to which we have been brought near.


The New Astronomy (1888), p. 6


The sun, as we shall learn later, is a star, and not a particularly large star. It is, as has been said, only a private in the host of heaven, but it ...

The sun, as we shall learn later, is a star, and not a particularly large star. It is, as has been said, only a private in the host of heaven, but it ...

The sun, as we shall learn later, is a star, and not a particularly large star. It is, as has been said, only a private in the host of heaven, but it ...

The sun, as we shall learn later, is a star, and not a particularly large star. It is, as has been said, only a private in the host of heaven, but it ...