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The Sleepwalkers, by Arthur Koestler. Anti-Communist Koestler takes a new tack, provides an animated lecture on the cosmologists who changed men's view of the heavens, including Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.
A failure of nerve, Koestler believes, sabotaged these true starts toward knowledge. Faced with a Greek society already in decline, Plato equated any change with decay. For philosophic reasons, he decided that the sphere was the only perfect shape, that the world must be a perfect sphere and that the...
¶When Galileo (1564-1642) reported his telescopic discovery of four new planets (they were actually satellites of Jupiter), Kepler was the first scientist in Europe to believe, and generously offered himself as "your shield-bearer." It is Galileo's disregard of Kepler, even to the point of not...
The seven had in common medium height (5 ft. 11 in. or less, to squeeze into the space capsule) and medium age (32 to 37-old enough to have the required experience in the air and engineering, young and fit enough to explore the unknown). Six sported crew cuts, four...
Died. Catherine Tobin Wright, 87, first wife of Patriarchitect Frank Lloyd Wright, mother of his first six children, including California Architect John Lloyd Wright, author of My Father Who Is On Earth, and Mrs. Catherine Baxter, mother of Cinemactress Anne Baxter; in Santa Monica, Calif. "Young husband-to-be just...