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...called cluster type, has long been known to astronomers, but its velocity was never measured until recently. It is far too faint to be seen with the naked eye, being of the tenth magnitude. It is in the constellation Cepheus, and is 3800 light years distant from the earth, which means that the light from it which astronomers now see through their telescopes started on its journey to the earth in the time of the shepherd kings of Egypt, nearly nineteen hundred years before Christ. That distance is only a small fraction of the distance from the earth to some...
...jacket on this volume of poems describes them as "poems of the earth and of ultimate space, of the pollen-dust of the buttercups, and the gold-dust of Orion...
Long ago, with increasing knowledge of the causes of such expressions of Nature as thunder or 'lightening, the human race lost the superstitious fear of these phenomena. But the earthquake still remains to fill men's hearts everywhere with helpless dread. The earth quivors--and suddenly the importance of all politics, wars, human ambition, dwindles to nothing...
...vivid flash comes the realization that men are atoms living on the hardened crust of a boiling pot--on a tiny ball itself whirling among countless similar balls, according to one vast plan. Today the earth merely trembles, the seismograph vibrates, and the scientist asks: "Somewhere...
...Meterological Institute issues a bulletin stating how the earth-shock coincided with the passage of a sun-spot over the central meridian of the sun. Various seismographic measurements tell the strength of the shock; and this constitutes almost the sum of our understanding of a particularly terrifying fact...