Abstract
THERE is always a peculiarly individual and peculiarly American quality about the work of Dr. Harlan True Stetson, and the present work is difficult to sum up on that account. The linkages amongst the rather diverse topics treated are somewhat slender and sometimes artificial, but as topics all are very interesting. Variations in longitude and latitude, the internal structure of the earth, sunspots in relation to terrestrial magnetism and radio reception, problems of the ionosphere, solar, lunar and stellar effects on radio transmission, cosmic clouds, cosmic rays, are parts of a science, more attractive than the name ‘cosmecology’ which the author attaches to it, dealing with the relation of the earth to its cosmic environment. The book is often stimulating, sometimes irritating; it contains much that is difficult to find elsewhere, and it should be read.
Earth, Radio and the Stars.
Dr.
Harlan True
Stetson
By. (Whittlesey House Publication.) Pp. xvii + 336 + 9 plates. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1934.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Earth, Radio and the Stars. Nature 135, 567 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135567c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135567c0