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Ideally in the Houses, "historical truth, scientific discovery, mathematical deduction, cosmic theory, medical research, sociological and economic revolution and the gracious humanities appear at the breakfast table as vital and important as the citizen's daily dose of crime and disappointment."-David McCord, quoted in Information about Radclife...
THERE ARE three such groups at Harvard. One group headed by Frondel and Cornelius Klein Jr., associate professor of Mincralogy, is concerned with the mineralogy of the lunar samples. Another group headed by Edward L. Fireman, lecturer on Astronomy, has determined the time some samples have been exposed to cosmic rays by studying the radioactivity in the samples. Then, the very important subject of the organic substances and their possible implications about life are studied by Elso S. Barghoorn, professor of Botany. Finally, special types of moon rock called anorthosites which give clues about the moon's formation are studied...
...incredible unchanging nature makes the lunar surface a permanent record of solar flares, solar wind and ordinary cosmic ray activity over thelast several hundred million years. Such a record is invaluable for tracing the history of the sun and nothing on earth comes close to duplicating...
Since the lunar surface has been continually exposed for so long to cosmic rays which might contain or produce a magnetic monopole, the moon samples have a greater chance of containing a monopole than anything on earth...
Greek maps, over their years, never had to be revised larger to be more universally inclusive. In their ships, men would not travel cut of sight of land. They had their universe, were perhaps not anxious to introduce foreign terms. Their cosmic resonances were in terms of the concrete, for their vision, though mechanically false, was truer to understanding and made sense in the shape of their minds...