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Quotes from The System of the Stars — Agnes Mary Clerke

1842–1907 Ireland

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Thus, not merely what it can do, but the rate at which it can do it, has to be considered in estimating the value of photography as an ally in astronomy.

The System of the Stars (1890)

Comets encountering these precincts must be perplexed to decide between the two potentates claiming their allegiance, and perhaps on occasions pay their court to each in turns, throwing out tails, as they do so, in all sorts of anomalous and contradictory directions.

The System of the Stars (1890)

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