Agnes Mary Clerke (1842 1907) published The System of the Stars in
1890 when she was a well-established popular science writer. The
volume was intended to bring the educated public up to date with
the progress made during the nineteenth century in the field of
sidereal astronomy. The work was one of the first publications to
be illustrated with astrophotography: it contains five astronomical
photographs of nebulae. Such photographs had significant impact on
the reception and popular acceptance of astrophotography as
scientific data. In The System of the Stars, Clerke used the
photographs to argue that the natural beauty and symmetry of the
universe, displayed by astrophotography, proved the existence of a
creator. The work is an important piece of popular Victorian
scientific literature, and remains significant today in the context
of the nineteenth-century intellectual debates on the relationship
between the sciences and religious belief.
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