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“If there be favored spots on earth where the Great Dead are wont to hold reunion surely the Stargazers’ Stone marks one of them.  Here perhaps may gather at times the shades of Isaac Newton, Christian Huyghens, Richer, Picard, the three Cassinis, the academicians of Lapland and those of Peru, the mathematicians whose theory gave meaning to the work, the Fathers Boscovich and La Maire, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, Nevil Maskelyne, John Bird and a host of others.  Here they renew old campaigns and review great issues fought out on the battlefields of science.  And perhaps they rejoice together that man still strives even as they strove, with transit and pendulum, in heat and frost, through swamp and forest, over mountain ranges and at peril of the seas better to know and to comprehend the earth on which he lives.” 

                                                                                   ~   Dr. Thomas D. Cope