Howe, Herbert A. (Herbert Alonzo), 1858-1926 · Meadville, Penna., Flood and Vincent · leaf 119
s-trations are neededto show that thepersonality of theobserver is a pow-erful factor in hisscientific utterances.Let us therefore sub-ject the average as-tronomer to a prettythorough analysis,so that we may un-derstand him andhis work the better.Who, then, is theastronomer ? Is hethe long-haired… … Fig. 49.—Charles A. Young, Professor ofAstronomy at Princeton University. The Astronomer. 113 An originalinvestigator. His physique. in which he spends quite a little time surveying thewonders of the sky ? Not at all. Is he the professorwho has charge of an observatory, and uses its instru-ments…
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