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...first work that Director Bond undertook, which was continued by his son and successor, Professor George P. Bond was an extensive series of zone observations, elaborate drawings of the planet Saturn, and work on the comet of 1858, and on the nebula in Orion. He and his son also worked to determine terrestrial longitudes for the United States Coast Survey. Cambridge is still recognized as the "Birthplace of American Longitudes...
...little chance against the predatory kans grass. For centuries, India's ryots turned their bullock-drawn, wooden plows against the kans roots, to no avail. With less & less yield from each sowing, the peasant would at last abandon his kans-infested wheatfield, blaming his ill luck on Saturn, considered an evil planet by Hindus. Between them, Saturn and kans choked some 10 million acres of hungry India's wheatlands...
...angles of 0°, 90°, or 180° between the lines connecting them with the sun. The more planets involved in a configuration, the more serious the storm is likely to be. During the great magnetic storm of July 1946, for instance, three planets (the earth, Jupiter and Saturn) were in a configuration, and three others (Mercury, Venus and Mars) were also in a "critical relationship...
...show that radio disturbances have occurred about ten times more frequently on the days of planetary configurations than on ordinary days. Nelson can also predict, in a general way, the periods that will probably be free from serious magnetic disturbances. They are most likely to occur when Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are spaced equally about the sun. In 1934, when the planets were spaced in that pattern, short-wave stations had less trouble than in any other year between 1930 and 1949. The next period of similar promising conditions...
...Cancro Joyned." Astronomy helped Princeton Dean Robert K. Root settle one matter that had long tantalized Chaucerians: the date of Chaucer's Troilus and Crlseyde. Dean Root was struck by the passage: "The bente moone with hire homes pale,†Saturne, and Jove, in Cancro joyned were . . ." No astronomer, Dean Root suspected that such a conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter and the moon was no common occurrence. He was right: for the first time in 600 years, the planets had come together in the sign of Cancer in 1385. That, concluded Root, to the general applause of Chaucerians...