Watching the Skies Ove Day Tumm Avot By Steph:
'A. Tonides, mA, (Oxen) 1902, roes.
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If on a starlit night you find en-Joyment in looking at the planets or speculating about the Milky Way and the vast distances beyond it you will find this book by Stephen and Margaret Ionides, father and daughter, much to your taste. It tight be described as a pleasantly informal history of astronomical thought and discovery, A Few Surprises Tut Seomrr Sciences inv me Hour or Oua Tıme By Hans Liebstoeckl. Translated by H. E. Kennedy, B.a. Rider, London. 18/-.
This book, written by a very erudite Viennese scholar, traces the history of occultism from the earliest times, in the light of the teachings of Rudolf Steiner. "I have not passed over unobserved any important or essential phenomenon in the immeasurable field of occult life," says the author, whose attitude is, throughout, not lacking in dogmatism. Such remarks aided "Into thee parts, naa The universe '(like all is matter. Wath" matter, geometry" calculates e, and time. ' Chem deal: Space; but time appears to. be neglected. We are so accustomed to our watches and calendars that take for granted all the mechanism behind them......We forget that there was a time when "watching the skies" constituted the most important and the most practical of man's activities.
"Fixed Like Nails"
Since astronomy invites one into the whole wide universe there is plenty of information that the authors have introduced regarding the stellar system, our solar system, the sun, the moon, the planets, comets, seasons, eclipses, the constellations, the calendar, navigation, geography, cosmology. These subjects are lightened up with scientific information as well as with the lore of all ages, all countries. The book is illustrated with many photographs, drawings and diagrams: an Egyptian water-clock, sunspots and solar protuberances, seasonal positions of the earth in relation to the sun, phases of the moon, kinds of eclipses, a Babylonian ziggurat, the great nebula of Orion, to name but a few. Even more illustrative is the information brought together in the text, "The stars," said Anaximines, "are fixed like nails in the crystalline vault of the heavens." He was not correct. nor was he very original......Th. expression "Axed stars" is almost a? cid as the word "stars" itself.
As for the planets:
"Tramp stars" was the disrespectful Greek term applied to them, and we have the same word in our name "planets." The Greeks were always a little scornful of anything that Ro out of place,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.