Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1889 — Our Ignorance of the Stars. [ARTICLE]

Our Ignorance of the Stars.

A pretty extensive knowledge of the beauties of the heavens can be acquired by the aid of a pair of good opera glasses. The extent of popular ignorance about astronomy is astonishing. It is safe to say that hardly one person in a hundred knows the names and position of a half dozen of thS most prominent stars or planets. The ancients as a class Lnew far more astronomy than do the majority of the people of to day.