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Sir Arthur Eddington publishes The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900–1931 in Cambridge. Comedian Will Hay observes the periodic Great White Spot on Saturn from his private observatory in London. [1] Fritz Zwicky postulates the existence of dark matter. [2]
[citation needed] The movement published posters, pamphlets, books, and even a newspaper The Key to World Events. Companies owned by adherents would only hire people who declared themselves convinced of the WEL's truth. [citation needed] Some followers even attended astronomical meetings to heckle, shouting, "Out with astronomical orthodoxy ...
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They are the first evidence of the center of the Milky Way, and the firsts experiences that founded the discipline of radio astronomy. 1933 – Edward Milne names and formalizes the cosmological principle. 1933 – Fritz Zwicky shows that the Coma cluster of galaxies contains large amounts of dark matter. This result agrees with modern ...
His book History of the Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler (1905), is currently printed with the title A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler. [ 7 ] He co-edited the first official history of the Royal Astronomical Society along with Herbert Hall Turner , History of the Royal Astronomical Society 1820–1920 (1923, reprinted 1987) .
A Brief History of Astronomy – via Internet Archive. Dreyer, J. L. E. (1953) [1906]. History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler (2nd ed.). Dover Publications. Eastwood, Bruce (2002). The Revival of Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Vol. CS 279. Ashgate. ISBN 0-86078-868-7.
Release date Title Notes February 2, 1931: Resurrection: February 14, 1931: Dracula: March 3, 1931: Finger Prints: March 23, 1931: Heroes of the Flames: March 29, 1931
June 6 – The first drive-in movie theater is opened in Pennsauken Township, near Camden, New Jersey, by chemical company executive Richard Hollingshead, according to his patent granted May 16. [4] [5] June 15 – National Guard Bureau founded.