Elijah H. Burritt
(20 Apr 1794 - 3 Jan 1838)
American mathematician and astronomer who wrote Geography of Heavens & Celestial Atlas (1833), which sold with many editions, for more than a generation. In it, he describes the constellations, their mythology and history. For the important individual named stars he explains the known facts about them.
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Science Quotes by Elijah H. Burritt (1 quote)
Beyond these are other suns, giving light and life to systems, not a thousand, or two thousand merely, but multiplied without end, and ranged all around us, at immense distances from each other, attended by ten thousand times ten thousand worlds, all in rapid motion; yet calm, regular and harmonious—all space seems to be illuminated, and every particle of light a world. ... all this vast assemblages of suns and worlds may bear no greater proportion to what lies beyond the utmost boundaries of human vision, than a drop of water to the ocean.
— Elijah H. Burritt
In The Geography of the Heavens and Class-Book of Astronomy (1874), 148 That knowledge is not happiness.