Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Discovery, Light, Instruments

    Discusses an extract from a report describing how the late astronomer, Hermann Goldschmidt, discovered the 'telescopic planets' using a 'common opera-glass'. Doubts the plausibility of this story, pointing out that a common opera-glass can only enable the astronomer to 'make observations on certain histrionic Stars', not planets.