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If I Were Free is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Elliott Nugent and written by Dwight Taylor, based on the play, Behold, We Live by John Van Druten. The film stars Irene Dunne, Clive Brook, Nils Asther and Henry Stephenson. The film was released on December 1, 1933, by RKO Pictures. [1] [2] [3]
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 ...
By historical astronomy we include the history of astronomy; what has come to be known as archaeoastronomy; and the application of historical records to modern astrophysical problems." Historical and ancient observations are used to track theoretically long term trends, such as eclipse patterns and the velocity of nebular clouds.
As a child Andrew showed interest in astronomy. At age 10 his mother borrowed a telescope for him to use from a local doctor, Dr. Bates of Morpeth. [3] He returned to astronomy in his 30s when he took up experimenting with gelatin plate photography of the moon and planets with a 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (14 cm) refracting telescope.
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.
The McMath-Hulbert Solar Observatory is a solar observatory in Lake Angelus, Michigan, USA.It was established in 1929 as a private observatory by father and son Francis Charles McMath and Robert Raynolds McMath and their friend, Judge Henry Hulbert.
Hay kept his career in astronomy separate from his comedy career and published Through My Telescope under the name of W.T. Hay, using the same title when giving lectures on astronomy. [6] Hay was an advocate for education on astronomy and considered those who had an interest in astronomy "the only men who see life in its true proportion".
This desert, and its abundance of history, becomes the focus of the documentary. Because of how dry it is, the desert hosts the untouched remains of fish, mollusks, Indian carvings, and even mummified humans. Astronomer Gaspar Galaz is introduced and comments on how astronomy is a way to look into the past to understand our origins.