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Richard Anthony Proctor è stato un astronomo inglese.

✵ 23. Marzo 1837 – 12. Settembre 1888
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Richard Anthony Proctor: Frasi in inglese

“The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.”

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Richard Anthony Proctor

Of the Ptolemaic system
Origine: Saturn and its System (2nd ed 1882), Chapter 2, p. 32

“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.”

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Richard Anthony Proctor

Origine: Saturn and its System (2nd ed 1882), Chapter 1, p. 2

“As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.”

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Richard Anthony Proctor

"Sir John Herschel", p. 1
Astronomical Essays (1872)

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