Astronomical Society Quotes (2 quotes)
[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.
In Supplement to the Penny Cyclopaedia. Quoted in Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan, Memoir of Augustus De Morgan (1882), 46
These earthly godfathers of heaven’s lights
That give a name to every fixed star
Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
That give a name to every fixed star
Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Dialog for Biron, written in Love’s Labour Lost (1598), Act 1, Scene 1, line 78-81.