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...Charles Greeley Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution who last Spring made scientific history with his measurements of the sun's heat (TIME, May 5), has now, from the Mt. Wilson observatory, analyzed the heat of nine other great stars-Rigel, Vega, Sirius, Procyon, Capella, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Alpha Herculis, Beta Pegasi. He employs the Nichols radiometer, a delicate instrument worked by heat, like the little vanes revolved by sunlight in optician's windows. The stars' light is broken up by the spectroscope into their respective spectra or color bands, the heat in the different parts of which...
Perhaps the most striking example of productivity is furnished by the Spanish author, Lope de Vega. This remarkable man turned out more than 1,800 plays in the 73 years of his life, and supplemented these by 400-odd "autos sacrementales". He occupied as position of literary dictator similar to that held by Voltaire at a later date and his death was widely mourned as a national calamity. But few men have heard of this author--once universally famous--except as a mere figure in histories of literature. His plays--all but two or three-have been forgotten. And parallel...
...Fabian Vega Garcia Jr. 1L., Litt.B., LL. D., Spanish...
...physicist, and found to be 22,000,000 miles or about two and a half times the diameter of our own sun. Its distance is known to be about twelve light years. To the east of Arcturus and Bootes is Lyra, a small constellation marked by the bright star Vega, from which the light emitted is a hundred and thirty years reaching the earth. It is toward the region of the sky marked by this bright star that the spectroscope shows the sun and the solar system to be travelling 12 miles a second, or 400,000,000 miles each...
...History of Spanish Literature," which for scholarship and thoroughness takes rank as the best work on the subject yet written. Among his other published works are "The Life of Miguel de Cervantes Laavedra," "Cervantes in England," an edition of the text of "Don Quixote," and "Lope de Vega and the Spanish Drama." He is a member of the British Academy and a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy; he has lectured at the British Academy, and at Oxford on the "Taylorian Foundation...