Richard Anthony Proctor

Richard Anthony Proctor (23 March 1837 – 12 September 1888) was an English astronomer.

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