Without Mathematics the knowledge now in existence called "Astronomy" would have been impossible. Wondering, watching, worshiping afar, like the "shepherds" of old, people would still be waiting for the unfathomable heavens to open and reveal the secrets of the Stars. Telescope and spectroscope would be naught without the Calculus.

Mathematics is the eye of the mind, the one glorious highway to the Suns and systems of space.

What the Ancients saw and how they saw it can only be known by records on monument, pyramid and entablature; but Mathematics was there, without which pyramids, obelisks, towers, domes, could not have been builded, and somewhere in those still entombed cities may be found the relics, or evidences, of telescopic aids to the Ancient Astronomers. The "Astro-nomes" certainly reveal a wonderful degree of familiarity with the movements of the heavenly bodies.

Backward into the dim labyrinths of Egyptian Science one cannot travel far, but even Africa gives up the secrets of ancient origins.

From Ancient Egypt and later from Greece must be gathered all that we can trace of what was known at that time concerning Mathematics and its co-related Sciences - its children. Yet all modern data concerning this subject seem to be included in the term "Copemican System."

Galileo knew, but could not demonstrate to those who would not understand, "The World Moves."

We burst almost at once into the full morning of Astronomical day.

Newton, LaPlace, Herschel and about a score of lights, all moving in the same direction, until now the world is full of ohservatories and observers, pressing forward over the starlit pathway that leads to the Temple of Astronomical Perfection.