IT is difficult not to talk poetry when talking of the stars; but we must here do our utmost to repress that tendency, and to keep ourselves at the scientific point of view. That man should know anything of the stars would be marvellous, if all knowle...
IT is difficult not to talk poetry when talking of the stars; but we must here do our utmost to repress that tendency, and to keep ourselves at the scientific point of view. That man should know anything of the stars would be marvellous, if all knowledge were not a marvel. The history of his knowledge, the gradual growth of his conceptions on this subject of the stars would be the history of the human mind.