Richard Anthony Proctor

An air of mystery surrounds his researches

Richard Anthony Proctor (23 March 1837 – 12 September 1888) was an English astronomer.

Quotes

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

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