A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope (1912)
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 112
ose.And now upon his western wing he leaned,Now his huge bulk oer Africs sands careened,Now the black planet shadowed Arctic snows.Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scarsWith memory of the old revolt from Awe,He reached a middle height, and at the stars,Which are the brain of heaven, he… … A MODERN OPERA-GLASS Said a distinguished astronomer, the late R. A. Proctor: I have often seen withpleasure the surprise with which the performance even of an opera-glass, well steadied,and directed towards certain parts of the heavens, has been witnessed by those whohave supposed that nothing but…
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