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Last week Jan H. Oort of Leyden University Observatory told how Dutch astronomers have been probing the nucleus of the home galaxy with the powerful new tool of radio astronomy. The commonest element in the universe is hydrogen, which exists both in the stars and among them. When it is diffuse, it sends out radio waves 21 centimeters long that permit radio astronomers to spot clouds of hydrogen drifting among the stars. Their speed can be measured by a slight shortening (for approach) or lengthening (for recession) in the length of the radio waves that come from them...
Angel is the upper lefthand corner of what must have been an "Annunciation"-perhaps to the shepherds of Bethlehem. Scholars guess that Van Leyden painted it about 1508, when he was 14 years...
...Museum has built up its $20 million collection on the theory that the best way to learn about art is to study masterpieces. Those who apply themselves most earnestly to the Fogg's masterpieces are inclined to be a highbrow lot, and their favorite painting is Lucas Van Leyden's cool, subtle Angel...
Known facts about Van Leyden are few and dim, his surviving pictures few and brilliant. The most notable quality in his paintings is their daylight luminosity. Van Leyden was a child prodigy, a master of his craft at twelve. At 33, six years before he died, he was rich and famous enough to make a triumphal tour of the Low Countries, dressed in a shining yellow suit, giving great banquets for the local artists of each town he visited...
According to "scholars," Time says. Van Leyden painted his Angel when he was 14 years old, in about 1508. His surviving pictures, unfortunately...