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...horizon, however, the student of astronomy does not isolate himself from contact with problems that concern his existence as a terrestrial being. The astronomer needs must look around him as well as above his head. For the study of the physical characteristics of the stars carries one into the realm of atomic physics and spectroscopic theory. The astronomical treatment of the earth as a planet necessarily requires the assistance of geology. The motions of the planets provide the application of the laws of dynamics in a somewhat more complex state of affairs than that provided by most terrestrial conditions...
First contact with the subject is attained through Astronomy 1, a full course, covering with detail the whole realm of astronomical science from the earth to the far-flung reaches of intergalactic space. It is a course for the man wishing just a single course in the subject as well as for the man who is concentrating in the field...
Professor Emory L. Chaffe has done his principal work in the realm of electric oscillation and electric waves, with special reference to vacuum-tube phenomena. He has also devoted himself to biophysical problems, notably to a study of the electric response of the retina when stimulated by light...
...Just Like Gold in appearance, or almost, is Rumania's new metallic currency. Actually an alloy of small value (composition secret) it will, King Carol hopes, restore somewhat the Rumanian people's sadly shaken confidence in the coin of his realm...
...some hidden corner of our mind may have reached an unearthly maturity of their own; and mythology, superstition, magic, from the childhood of culture, may still live with accumulated sophistication as an unrealized phantom in our modern civilization. If can scarcely be denied that here is a fascinating realm for exploration. The ultimate value of the Surrealiste painter does not depend upon what you may think of his subject matter but in the last analysis depends upon the quality of his execution...