Abstract
IN the continual turmoil of daily life, when each one is looking forward to new methods and new discoveries, we seldom or never look back into the doings of our early predecessors, and even when we do we are somewhat inclined to pity their ignorance and their, to us, absurd notions. We ought rather to call to mind the difficulties under which the great men of old laboured, difficulties under which our present leaders in astronomy would probably have been equally sorely tried. We must remember that we have all the sister sciences lending their aid, and that therefore the advance in astronomy should be made with constantly increasing strides.
Astronomical Myths. Based on Flammarion's “History of the Heavens”
By John F. Blake. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1877.)
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Blake's “Astronomical Myths” . Nature 15, 351–352 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015351a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/015351a0
