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...this slippery slide from "reason" to science, Sch?nborn is a direct descendant of the early 17th century Dutch clergyman and astronomer David Fabricius, who could not accept Johannes Kepler's discovery of elliptical planetary orbits. Why? Because the circle is so pure and perfect that reason must reject anything less. "With your ellipse," Fabricius wrote Kepler, "you abolish the circularity and uniformity of the motions, which appears to me increasingly absurd the more profoundly I think about it." No matter that, using Tycho Brahe's most exhaustive astronomical observations in history, Kepler had empirically demonstrated that the planets orbit elliptically...
...other type of lymphocyte, the B-cell, undergoes differentiation, in chickens, at least, in an organ called the bursa of Fabricius. (Where that transformation takes place in man has not yet been positively determined, but it can be assumed that the human body contains an equivalent of the bursa.) B-cells are called the agents of humoral immunity because they synthesize antibodies that circulate freely in the blood. The antibodies, actually globular proteins, help the body resist disease-causing organisms. Both the B-cells and T-cells reside primarily in the body's lymphoid tissues, which are found under...
...perhaps for this purpose that Hitler replaced his scholarly ambassador in Bucharest, Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius, with a brash terrorist, Baron Manfred von Killinger, whose record is one of the bloodiest in Nazidom's unsavory history. Active since 1920 as a plotter, gunman, Putschist and purger, he served briefly as Consul General in San Francisco, scored impressive success in reducing Slovakia to submission. As Gauleiter of Rumania, the Baron could be expected to exhibit those arts of discipline for which he is notorious...
...work is an "ailing overgrowth of superabundant sensibility"; he was "guilty of the heresy of expressive form: the belief . . . that life best expresses itself in art by duplicating its own confusion in the transferred form of the spectator's emotion." Products of the run of generally read novelists-Fabricius, Feuchtwanger, Cronin, Stribling, Lewis-are briefly dismissed, not for lack of interest or use, but "because they show little material for literary criticism to fasten...
...Reader Christensen write to Firma Rudolf Fabricius, Neusalza-Spremberg, Sachsen, Germany. The game is German Patent...