# Watchers of the Sky

Author: Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958

Genre: Astronomy

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6574

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Watchers+of+the+Sky+Noyes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

This volume, while it is complete in itself, is also the first of a trilogy, the scope of which is suggested in the prologue. The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity--a unity of purpose and endeavour--the single torch passing from hand to hand through the centuries; and the great moments of science when, after long labour, the pioneers saw their accumulated facts falling into a significant order--sometimes in the form of a law that revolutionised the whole world of thought--have an intense human interest, and belong essentially to the creative imagination of poetry. It is with these moments that my poem is chiefly concerned, not with any impossible attempt to cover the wh...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watchers-of-the-sky-6574/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watchers-of-the-sky-6574/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watchers-of-the-sky-6574/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watchers-of-the-sky-6574/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watchers-of-the-sky-6574/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watchers-of-the-sky-6574/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watchers-of-the-sky-6574/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watchers-of-the-sky-6574/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/watchers-of-the-sky-6574/chapters/9/index.md)