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Agnes Mary Clerke war eine irisch-britische Astronomin und Autorin wissenschaftlicher Beiträge und Bücher. Wikipedia

✵ 10. Februar 1842 – 20. Januar 1907

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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.”

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Agnes Mary Clerke buch The System of the Stars

Quelle: The System of the Stars (1890), p. 33.

“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.”

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Agnes Mary Clerke buch The System of the Stars

Of the nature of any planetary system round the double star Alpha Centauri; p. 168.
The System of the Stars (1890)

“Is it not reasonable to think that by far the greater part is solid and dark, and that this immense globe is encompassed with a thin covering of that resplendent substance from which the sun would seem to derive the whole of his vivifying heat and energy?”

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Agnes Mary Clerke

Of the Sun; p. 64-5.
History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century (1885; 3rd ed 1893)

“The planets revolved in circles because it was in their nature to do so, just as laudanum sends to sleep because it possesses a virtus dormitiva.”

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Agnes Mary Clerke

Of the Greek approach to astronomy; p. 1.
History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century (1885; 3rd ed 1893)