Astronomy for Amateurs

Paul Renaud. CONTEMPLATION
BY CAMILLE FLAMMARION AUTHOR OF POPULAR ASTRONOMY
AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY FRANCES A. WELBY
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1910
Copyright, 1904, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Published October, 1904
TO Madame C.R. CAVARÉ ORIGINAL MEMBER OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE CHÂTEAU DE MAUPERTHUIS
Camille Flammarion.
Observatory of Juvisy, November, 1903 .

The Science of Astronomy is sublime and beautiful. Noble, elevating, consoling, divine, it gives us wings, and bears us through Infinitude. In these ethereal regions all is pure, luminous, and splendid. Dreams of the Ideal, even of the Inaccessible, weave their subtle spells upon us. The imagination soars aloft, and aspires to the sources of Eternal Beauty.