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Richard Anthony Proctor
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thumb|right|An air of mystery surrounds his researches
Richard Anthony Proctor (23 March 1837 – 12 September 1888) was an English astronomer.
Quotes
Astronomical Essays (1872)
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.
"Sir John Herschel", p. 1
Saturn and its System (2nd ed 1882)
An air of mystery surrounds his researches, lying, as they do, chiefly in depths to which the far-seeing eye of the telescope alone penetrates.
Chapter 1, p. 2
The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.
Of the Ptolemaic system
Chapter 2, p. 32
External links
Category:People from London
Category:Astronomers from England
Category:1837 births
Category:1888 deaths
Category:University of Cambridge alumni