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"They let us approach ridiculously close. Sometimes they were too bored even to look at us, and we had to whistle to attract their attention, though often the noise of the camera would bring them out of cover, from curiosity, to join those already before the lens. In all my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Jun. 6, 1927 | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

Author Deeping has all the facility which should be his after a decade of writing unpopular novels. He has not, however, added to this facility any of the qualities which make the books remembered. His people are seen through the wide end of the telescope; they are not Individuals through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figures of Turf | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

For the past four years the Peruvian station has been under the direction of Dr. John Paraskevopoulos, and he has superintended the transferring of the equipment from Arequipa to Bloemfontein. This includes a photographic telescope with a double lens 24 inches in diameter, one with a triple lens ten inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD OBSERVATORY MOVES TO SOUTH AFRICA | 3/31/1927 | See Source »

The new Harvard telescope will be a reflector also, in which a concave mirror sixty inches in diameter replaces the convex lens of the more familiar, or refracting type. The mirror faces the star and, as it is concave, or dish-shaped, the light rays converge after being reflected from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE WILL HAVE NEW TELESCOPE IN AFRICA | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

So far, the exact site of the new station has not been decided, but it will be somewhere in the Union of South Africa, and the capital of Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, is being given serious consideration. Since 1890 the Harvard Observatory has operated a branch station at Arequipa, Peru...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE WILL HAVE NEW TELESCOPE IN AFRICA | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

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