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...Week." The painting was done around 1632, one year after Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam. He took lodgings with a gentleman named Hendrick van Uylenburgh, whose orphaned young cousin Saskia charmed him. Saskia was of patrician background (her father had been a burgomaster), but the miller's son from Leiden successfully wooed her, and the two were married in 1634. Rembrandt painted Saskia several times, often in the role of a mythological heroine. As in many of his early works, Rembrandt used a small (17¼ in. by 14 in.) wooden panel for his Minerva. He was a long...
...Polyglot Family. He took his doctorate at the State University of Leiden with a dissertation on the background of the social gospel in the U.S. But he was not ordained because the Remonstrant Church, to which he belonged, stipulated that all ministers must be pastors, and young Yisser 't Hooft had been tapped by the late great U.S. ecumenist John R. Mott to become secretary of the Y.M.C.A. World's Alliance in Geneva. The Swiss city has been his headquarters ever since, and having since been ordained in the Swiss Reformed Church, he preaches every now and then...
Over the years Jaeger had gathered manuscripts of Gregory of Nyssa from any scattered sources, and he was working with his students on the great edition. According to his associates, the work--of which eight volumes have already been published or are in the press of Brill of Leiden, Holland--will be pushed to completion...
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...radio waves pass through cosmic dust clouds. By tracking the 21-cm. waves given off by hydrogen, radio astronomers have been able to probe deeper and deeper through the Milky Way toward the galaxy's center. Recently, Dutch Astronomers G. W. Rougoor and J. H. Oort of Leiden Observatory reported that they had been able to peer into the mysterious nucleus itself. They found there a strange pinwheel of rapidly spinning hydrogen...