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The dawn of astronomy

The dawn of astronomy

by Sir Norman Lockyer

The enormous advance which has been recently made in our astronomical knowledge, and in our power of investigating the various bodies which people space, is to a very great extent due to the introduction of methods of work and ideas from other branches of science. Much of the recent progress has been, we may indeed say, entirely dependent upon the ..

The Planet of Illusion

The Planet of Illusion

by Donald A. Wollheim

The captain's keen gray eyes stared carefully at the glowing panel before him. On it shone out tiny points of light which revealed each of the different bodies through whose vicinity the Astralite was passing. A remarkable device actuated by delicate gravital detectors which marked out every body they approached. And according to this chart, there ..

Decidedly Odd

Decidedly Odd

by Edwin Balmer

One rainy morning in April, Luther Trant sat alone in his office. On his wrist as he bent closely over a heap of typewritten pages spread before him on his desk, a small instrument in continual motion ticked like a watch. It was for him an hour of idleness; he was reading fiction. And, with his passion for making visible and recording the workings ..

George Helm

George Helm

by David Graham Phillips

A COMET so dim that it is almost invisible will cause agitated interest in the heavens where great fixed stars blaze nightly unnoticed. Harrison was a large Ohio river town, and in its firmament blazed many and considerable fixed stars—presenting pretty nearly all varieties of peculiarity in appearance and condition. But when George Helm appeared e..

Little Dinners With the Sphinx, and Other Prose Fancies

Little Dinners With the Sphinx, and Other Prose Fancies

by Richard Le Gallienne

Little Dinners With the Sphinx, and Other Prose Fancies is a collection of short stories written by Richard Le Gallienne. The stories are Little dinners with the Sphinx, The death of the poet, The butterfly of dreams, My castle in Spain, Once-upon-a-time, The little joys of Margaret, What's in a name, Revisiting the glimpses of the moon,Eva, the wo..

The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland

The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland

by Alexander Peterkin

The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland, Wherein the Headis and Conclusionis Devysit Be the Ministers and Commissionaris of the Particular Kirks Thereof, Are Specially Expressed and Contained.The printing of this, the earliest Record of the Reformed Church in Scotland, has now reached a period in the history of that Church, which renders it fi..

The Fantasy Fan November 1934

The Fantasy Fan November 1934

by Charles D. Hornig

Once upon a time, a year ago last summer, to be more specific, I had money to burn, but rather than burn it, I decided to launch an attack upon the fantasy-loving public in the form of a fan magazine. You've guessed it—the result was none other than THE FANTASY FAN. I placed enough capital in the venture to start it off. Needless to say, I was disa..

The Fireless Locomotive

The Fireless Locomotive

by Anonymous

Most things yield to progress—and that, of course, is how museums are made. The Corliss engine now on display at Carillon Park labored mightily during the formative years of American industry, yet more economical electric power systems eventually sent that steam giant into retirement at the Park. The Conestoga wagon and the Concord coach, the Grass..