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...American Museum of Natural History has long wanted a planetarium to show visitors how the planets revolve about the Sun, how the Sun moves among the other stars. The problem of getting money for the planetarium stumped Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn while he was president of the museum. By last week his successor Frederick Trubee Davison, son and brother of bankers, had invented an ingenious means: a quasi-public corporation called the Planetarium Authority, similar to the popular and profitable Port of New York Authority which builds toll tunnels, toll bridges and other self-liquidating port improvements. Such Authorities...
...Chicago has a planetarium, the Adler. Philadelphia will put one in operation the end of this year, Los Angeles later. Germany has eleven planetaria, Italy two (Rome, Milan),Austria one (Vienna), Russia one (Moscow...
...interesting to recall that the now deceased but well-beloved Professor Wilson of the mathematics department, and Astronomer Philip Fox, now director of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, were two faculty members who enjoyed the old-style game and were almost as regular in practice as members of the Varsity team...
...Chicago, last week, members of the American Astronomical Society held their 44th annual meeting. Between sessions they visited the new Adler Planetarium (TIME, May 19), were entertained there by Director Philip Fox who made suns rise and set, moons wax and wane for them in a few minutes. Speeches outlining the latest astronomical discoveries were given in the Astronomical Museum in the same building with the planetarium. Some important observations...
Philip Fox, astronomer, director of the new Adler Planetarium at Chicago (TIME, May 19) LL.D...