Excerpt from Star-Gazer's Hand-Book: A Brief Guide for Amateur Students of Astronomy The history and the destiny of the heavenly bodies We cannot know in this life, but we may know something of their immense distances from us and from one another, and of the laws that govern them in their sublime, silent revolutions through eternal space. As we gaze into the deep, measureless heavens and note the suns and worlds in their unceasing motions through the boundless depths of space, we feel as at no other time the meaning of the Psalmist's words, Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.