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Excerpt from The Progressive Journal of Education, Vol. 2: Septemer 15, 1909The planets, in their turn, while cooling and contracting, it was held, threw Off other rings that collected themselves each into a smaller spheroid known as a satellite or moon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. For...

Excerpt from International Studio, Vol. 75: March, 1922This romantic spirit is notable in such a picture as In the Trough of the Sea. In its pattern it is a theme that Ryder might have set down on canvas, did not the mystical element enter so strongly into that great master's work. In its color it has a depth that Ryder's method pro hibited. You look down into Hudson's ocean waves. You look at the enamelled surface of Ryder's seas. And since H...

Excerpt from The Progressive Journal of Education, Vol. 2: Septemer 15, 1909 The gaseous globe was rotating in the same direction as the present solar system, and as it rotated it lost its heat by radiation and consequently contracted, 'which increased the speed of rotation. Now two forces, the centripetal and the centrifugal, were holding the gaseous substance in place. But with the cooling and shrinking of the gaseous globe, attended by gre...

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Excerpt from International Studio, Vol. 75: March, 1922 Those who know Hudson best, and they are not many, declare that it is a genuine, deep Seated love for the sea and Ships that has drawn him to painting these subjects. And he knows both. For it is also said Of him that any fisher man on Monhegan will lend his boat to Hudson, a compliment that only those who know what pride fishermen take in their boats and how care ful they are of them wi...