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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Hailed as a "great textbook," this volume was so successful in & out of the university that other faculty members followed suit: Walter Bartky with Highlights of Astronomy; Mayme I. Logsden with A Mathematician Explains; Geologists Carey Croneis and William Krumbein with Down to Earth. Pioneer Lemon, who thus has the distinction of starting a whole popularization movement within his university, now plans to write a few serious publications to satisfy sticklers among his colleagues, spend the rest of his life composing "funny books" like From Galileo to Cosmic Rays-one of them, soon to be published, a breezy discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Understanding Without Stars | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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