Richard Anthony Proctor

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Richard Anthony Proctor (23 March 1837 Chelsea, London - 12 September 1888, New York) was an English astronomer.

Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Astronomical Essays (1872) 1.2 Saturn and its System (2nd ed 1882) 2 External links

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[edit] Astronomical Essays (1872)

• As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.
  • "Sir John Herschel", p.1

[edit] Saturn and its System (2nd ed 1882)

• An air of mystery surrounds his researches, lying, as they do, chiefly in depths to which the far-seeing eye of the telescope alone penetrates.
  • Chapter 1, p.2

• The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.
  • Of the Ptolemaic system
  • Chapter 2, p.32

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