Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1934 — Page 6

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—Dietz on Science — BOOKS FAVORED FOR FOLLOWERS OF ASTRONOMY Large and Small Volumes Available: Pictures Abound in One. BY rAVID DIETZ gcripp*-Howard Science Editor A reader asks for a list of good books dealing with the subject of astronomy. The past year has seem the publication of Sir Arthur Eddington's ‘The Expanding Universe,” an excellent book which undertakes to explain this latest theory of the universe makers. But to answer the question I must go back over the publications of the last few years. Good books on astronomy are not published with the frequency of novels. On the other hand, they are not as ephemeral as many novels. While new theories are being advanced constantly, a book published three or four years ago is sufficiently up-to-date for all practical pur- j poses, for the great mass of estab- i fished astronomical knowledge does , not change. An excellent little book, telling how astronomers arrived at their present knowledge of the universe, was published last year. It is “The Universe Unfolding,’ by Dr. Robert H. Baker, professor of astronomy in the University of Illinois. <The book is published by Williams & Wilkins at sl.) General Book Cited A popular general astronomy is “The Pageant of the Stars,” by Wil- j liam J. Luyten. assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard university. It was published in 1029 by Doubleday, Doran & Cos. It is written simply enough to provide a splendid introduction to the subject of astronomy. Another fine book is “Man and the Stars,” by Harlan True Stetson, director of the Perkins observatory of Ohio Wesleyan university, j It was published in 1930 by Whittlesey House at $2.50. Dr. Stetson has written his book from the historical point of view, stressing the lives and achievements of the astronomers of the past. But he dealt also wtih the modern knowledge of the subject and in the closing chapters of the book departs from conventional paths to discuss in detail three interesting questions, namely: “Is there life on other planets?” “Has life any cosmic significance?’ and “Has science displaced religion?” j Covers Wide Field An attempt to trace the organization of the universe from the electron to the super-galaxy will be found in “Flights From Chaos,” by | Dr. Harlow Shapley, professor of astronomy at Harvard university j I and director of the Harvard college j observatory. The book was pub-i fished by Whittlesey House in 1930. Dr. Shapley traces each step from the confusion of chaos to the order- j liness of an organized universe—the i the atom, the molecule.; the crystal, the meteor, moons and | A small book, interesting to those who wish to keep abreast of the | latest developments in big tele- j scopes and in the study of the sun is "Signals From the Stars,” by Dr.: George Ellery Hale, director emer- | itus of the Mt. Wilson observatory.! The book was published in 1931 by Scribners. Instructs With Pictures “Alice in Wonderland" asked: “What is the use of a book with- ; out pictures?” Evidently the editors of “Splendor of the Heavens" agreed with her, j for while the text of this book was ! contributed by a group of England's best-known astronomers, it is j essentially a picture book of as- j | tronomy. The book is a big one, a quarto | volume of 976 pages. There is a to- j tal of 1.104 illustrations in black and white and twenty-five in color. It \ was published by Mcßride in 1931 j at $8.50. This list would not be complete without some of the books by Jeans and Sir Arthur Eddington. I have already mentioned the latter's ‘“The Expanding Universe.” An older book of his “Stars and Atoms.” published by the Yale University Press | in 1927. Jeans is the author of a new book this year, " The New Back- | ground of Science." dealing with theoretical physics, but applying to the field of astronomy in many ways. In conclusion, perhaps the reader j will not think me too forward if I mention my own book, “Tire Story | of Science.” published in 1931 by j Sears, and now about to enter its j third edition. About one-third of | the book deals with the subject of ; astronomy. TTEiGDg * BYBRUC6CATTON BY this time you probably have ; been urged to read “Jonathan ; Bishop." by Herbert Gorman. About i all I can do is add my humble cheep j ,yo the general chorus of praise.' Bishop" is a fascinating historical novel, and the chances | fre very good that you’ll enjoy it ; reatly. It has to do with a young Ameri#can who is visiting in Paris in 1870.: r when the Franco-Prussian war begins. and the empire of Napoleon 111 goes to pieces. This young man. fresh from Harvard. is' full of ideals, and proud of it. He moons about Paris, worshiping at the shrines of the French revolution, visiting the spot where the guillotine stood, ardent in his j belief in democracy. Then he gets entangled in the catastrophe that follows the French war disasters. The empire collapses. and the Parisian proltariat rises to seize the power. When this happened in 1793 it was Jacobinism, and young Mr. Bishop admired it deeply; when it happens under his eyes it is communism. and he sees its faults instead of its virtues. But he gets into it in spite of j himself, becomes a part of a revo- j lutionarv movement that he loathes —and when the commune goes to disaster, goes with it. V Published by Farrar & Rinehart, It Is priced at $2.50.

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