The Telescopes for Libraries project is to help foster scientific literacy and interest in science by enabling our nation's youth and general public to have the wonderful experience of looking at celestial objects in the night sky, such as the ice crystal rings of Saturn, craters on the Moon, star clusters, nebulae, and distant galaxies. Astronomy is the oldest science of them all, and lends itself readily to multidisciplinary connections. Telescopes can be loaned out to patrons or set up periodically for a star party event.
O, telescope, instrument of much knowledge,
more precious than any sceptre, is not he who
holds thee in his hand made king and lord of
the works of God?
- Johannes Kepler
"The best thing that we're put here for's to see;
The strongest thing that's given us to see with's
A telescope. Someone in every town
Seems to me owes it to the town to keep one.
In Littleton it may as well be me."
- The Star-Splitter by Robert Frost
O, telescope, instrument of much knowledge,
more precious than any sceptre, is not he who
holds thee in his hand made king and lord of
the works of God?
- Johannes Kepler
"The best thing that we're put here for's to see;
The strongest thing that's given us to see with's
A telescope. Someone in every town
Seems to me owes it to the town to keep one.
In Littleton it may as well be me."
- The Star-Splitter by Robert Frost