When he left Göttingen to overseethe observatory in Potsdam, hisreplacement nearly quit before his appointment had begun: upon taking an inventory, in order to determine how badlyhow badly the facilities had suffered underSchwarzschild, he found a transparency of the Venus di Milo inside the focal plane of the largest telescope, arranged in such a way that the stars of the Cassiopeiaconstellation outlined the goddess39;s arms.