To speak of their doings on this pilgrimage, of ingress and egress, of tangent and parallax, of external and internal contact, would avail nothing. Is it not all written in the chronicles of the Astronomical Society?

谈论他们在这次朝圣之旅中的所作所为，入口和出口，切线和视差，外部和内部接触，都无济于事。天文学会的编年史不都是这样写的吗？