A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens With the Simplest of Optical Instruments
With Maps and Directions to Facilitate the Recognition of the Constellations and the Principal Stars Visible to the Naked Eye
By
Garrett P. Serviss
“Known are their laws; in harmony unroll
The nineteen-orbed cycles of the Moon.
And all the signs through which Night whirls her car
From belted Orion back to Orion and his dauntless Hound,
And all Poseidon’s, all high Zeus’ stars
Bear on their beams true messages to man.”
Poste’s Aratus.