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...works significant in the history of science. Only the years between 1500 and 1800 have been drawn upon, because of the rarity of books before those years, and the abundance after them. Vesalius "De Humani Corperi Fabrica," in the second edition, will be on view; the first, printed at Basel in 1543, is to be shown at the same time in the Print Room in Fogg. The Treasure Room, possesses, however, the earliest printings of Copernicus' revolutionary work on the movements of the planets, of Gesner's natural history, and of Agricola's De Re Metallica, and these will...
Died. Jules Piccard, 93, longtime (1883-1920) University of Basel chemistry professor, father of Stratospherist Auguste Piccard and his twin Chemist Jean Piccard of Wilmington, Del.; in Lausanne...
Sound travels through air 1088 feet per second. At about ten minutes past six one evening last week the people of Basel, Switzerland heard a dull and distant rumble. It might have been thunder, but the sky was clear. A minute and a half later the same sound reached Cologne, Germany, 250 miles to the north. Between 6:00 and 6:15 that dreadful roar echoed the entire length of the upper Rhine, and had been heard in five countries: Germany, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland. It marked the death of 62 people, injury to over 1,000, total destruction...
Although the U. S. is entitled to have the James Gordon Bennett International races at home next autumn by virtue of her 1930 victory, the meet will be held at Basel, Switzerland in the hope of stimulating European competition. Because the U. S. has won five consecutive meets, European teams have been put to the disadvantages of competing away from home since 1927. This year it was doubtful if more than one or two foreign countries would send teams, when the U. S. agreed to transfer the meet abroad...
...Jewish Conciliation Court, an unofficial body composed of Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky. Rabbi Alexander Basel and Contractor Sam Lippman, had come one Nathan Goldberg, his wife, his daughter Rachael, 21, and a young Italian named John Costello. The Goldbergs wished Rachael "to quit loving that Italian boy." Magistrate Brodsky called Costello to the bar. He was a cabinetmaker. He made $25 a week. Three hours ago, he said, he had married Rachael...