Prologue

I. Copernicus

II. Tycho Brahe

III. Kepler

IV. Galileo

V. Newton

VI. William Herschel Conducts

VII. Sir John Herschel Remembers

Epilogue




PROLOGUE

THE OBSERVATORY


At noon, upon the mountain's purple height,
Above the pine-woods and the clouds it shone
No larger than the small white dome of shell
Left by the fledgling wren when wings are born.