Those unfamiliar constellations which, to the casual beholder, are at most a new arrangement of ordinary points of light, were to this professed astronomer, as to his brethren, a far greater matter.

对于不经意的观察者来说， 至多是普通光点的新排列， 对于这位自称天文学家的人来说， 就像对他的兄弟们一样， 是一件大得多的事情。