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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an excellent literary style, concise and readable, Sir James explains not only the constitution of our universe, but the history of astronomical though from the earliest times. The reader with but a mild interest in the subject matter will find in it a fascinating tale, easy to pick up, next to impossible to lay down. It is another proof of the ancient dictum that the truly great man is he who can express the most complicated of thoughts without resorting to involved phraseology as a sort of camouflage...
...those who like to know something about everything, it is superb and it will be equally liked by such as can appreciate a happy marriage of science and literature. The two worlds of scientists and of laymen should render up hearty thanks for the existence and continued productivity of Sir James Jeans...
Twenty months ago Lord Linlithgow assumed chairmanship of Parliament's Joint Select India Committee: 16 members of the House of Lords, including a onetime Viceroy (the Marquess of Reading), and the Archbishop of Canterbury; and 16 members of the House of Commons, including Sir Austen Chamberlain and Laborite Miss Mary Pickford, who has since died. Their duty was to tie up the loose ends left by seven years of plodding British efforts to find for India a more liberal but not too liberal status...
...Sir James Jeans, it is asserted, is wrong in his estimate of 5,000 billion the magnitude of stars each part of the years for the age of the system. It appears to be much younger than that--probably only about 5 billion years, but there seems to be no reason to expect that it will disintegrate much for another 1,000 billion years...
...keeper in Cadiz seemed to Traveler Tomlinson to speak for the nation when he said, with a shrug: "That revolution was nothing. It was not bloody. It was only like an orange, which falls when it is very ripe. No trouble, no trouble at all. The people of Cadiz, sir, are always reformers. They had been waiting for it how long? and then the day came. Then they went into the streets. People must go into the streets when there is a revolution, a fiesta. Certainly there was a little burning, but the people were polite...