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Before I came to Harvard I'd been told the earth was globular...
Shapley, whose work in determining the distances of globular star clusters as a means to estimate the shape and dimensions of the Milky Way system is regarded by some scientists as equal to Copernicus' Astronomical discoveries, is Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and a tutor in the Department of Astronomy...
They had gone to the right place. Experts say that most corn varieties are native to Guatemala and southern Mexico -just as the peach is native to China. the English walnut to Persia, celery to the Mediterranean. Sometime around the 5th Century, primitive South American corn, which had small, globular ears and irregular kernels, was crossed with the strong, tall gamma grass which grows in Central America. Result of this crossbreeding was teosinte, an earless corn-producing plant which still grows wild in Mexico and the highlands of Guatemala. Crossed and recrossed with South American corn, teosinte produced the elongated...
...Museum will include a globular film theater, with cinema projectors in the floor. Films will be thrown on the ceiling, viewed by audiences lying in reclining chairs...
Among the new determinations of distances is that of the great globular cluster in Hercules, which is 31 light years away. The address was made at the presentation of a painting of Nicholas Copernicus to the observatory...