What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. — Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
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What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us.

— Agnes Mary Clerke, A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century
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