“This book ought to make star-gazing popular.”—New York Herald.
“The author attributes much of the indifference of otherwise well-informed persons regarding the wonders of the starry firmament to the fact that telescopes are available to few, and that most people have no idea of the possibilities of the more familiar instrument of almost daily use whose powers he sets forth.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
“By its aid thousands of people who have resigned themselves to the ignorance in which they were left at school, by our wretched system of teaching by the book only, will thank Mr. Serviss for the suggestions he has so well carried out.”—New York Times.
“For amateur use this book is easily the best treatise on astronomy yet published.”—Chicago Herald.
“‘Astronomy with an Opera-Glass’ fills a long-felt want.”—Albany Journal.
“No intelligent reader of this book but will feel that if the author fails to set his public star-gazing the fault is not his, for his style is as winning, as graphic, and as clear as the delightful type in which it is printed.”—Providence Journal.
“Mr. Serviss neither talks over the heads of his readers nor ignores the sublime complexity and range of his themes, but unites simplicity with scholarship, scientific precision with life-long enthusiasm, and a genuine eloquence with rare touches of humor. Considered as a product of the publishing industry, the book is elegance itself.”—The Chautauquan.
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