Burnham's Celestial Handbook Quotes

“Come with me now, Pilgrim of the stars,
For our time is upon us and our eyes
shall see the far country
and the shining cities of Infinity
which the wise men knew
in ages past, and shall know again
in ages yet to be.”
― Robert Burnham Jr., Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System, Volume 1: Andromeda Through Cetus

“Mathematically-minded persons will thus perceive immediately that the magnitude scale is a logarithmic one and that the number 2.512 is the fifth root of 100.”
― Robert Burnham, Burnham's Celestial Handbook, Volume One: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System