William Henry Smyth Quote
In fabricating new constellations, puerility and meanness aided blind zeal in ransacking the heavens for amorphotae, or unformed stars, wherewith to wheedle accidental rulers of the hour, by exalting them and a heterogeneous assemblage of modern implements, among the heroes and classical symbols of remote ages.
A Cycle of Celestial Objects (Volume 1), Chapter V (p. 436)
