The Day We Found the Universe - Marcia Bartusiak [164]
215 The Hubbles had just bought an acre lot in San Marino: HUB, Box 7, Grace's memoir. In the late 1970s the Hubble home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. See Pasadena Star-News, April 5, 1977.
215 “If an old scrap of paper, published within the sacred period”: Blades (1930), p. J10.
215 Duncan found three variable stars within the Triangulum nebula, M33: Duncan (1922).
216 colleague at Mount Wilson, George Ritchey, had photographed thousands of “soft star-like condensations” in Andromeda: Ritchey (1910a), p. 32.
216 suggested that strict divisions were in place in Mount Wilson: Shapley (1969), p. 58.
216 “I faithfully went along with my friend van Maanen”: Ibid., p. 80.
217 Shapley was so certain of his position that he proceeded to take a handkerchief out of his pocket and rub out the marks: This story was first published in Smith (1982), p. 144. Smith noted that he found no documentary proof but judged there were “some pointers to its possible truth.” Allan Sandage elaborates on the tale in his history of Mount Wilson. Sandage (2004), pp. 495–98.
217 “spiral nebulae” were on his agenda and that “cosmogony” would be his future field: HUA, Shapley to Kellogg, June 10, 1920, and December 1, 1920.
217 “The work that Hubble did on galaxies was very largely using my methods”: Shapley (1969), pp. 57–58.
217 “in the fields of observation”: Louis Pasteur, Inaugural Lecture, University of Lillé, December 7, 1854.
218 “There is just not one universe”: HUB, Box 28, Scrapbook.
218 catchiest headline: Ibid.
218 “more systems of stars than there are hairs in the whiskers of Santa Claus”: Blades (1930), p. J10.
218 “Professor Edwin Hubble announces that he has found another universe”: “The Universe, Inc.” (1926), 133.
218 “Astronomy, as a matter of popular interest”: “Crowd Jams Library for Hubble Talk” (1927).
218 “It is like looking at those lights”: Blakeslee (1930).
218 did by chance discover “Comet Hubble” in August 1937: HUB, 100-inch Logbook.
218 “I am commuting to a spiral nebula”: HUB, Box 8, biographical memoir.
219 “astronomy is a science in which exact truth is ever stranger than fiction”: Jeans (1929), p. 8.
219 “How terrifying! … nothing at all!”: HUB, Box 10, Folder HUB 195.
220 “I want to get away from both the words universe and nebula”: HUA, Shapley to Hubble, May 29, 1929.
220 didn't see any pressing need to abolish the “venerable precedent” of preserving the word galaxy: HUA, Hubble to Shapley, May 15, 1929.
220 “The term nebulae offers the values of tradition”: Hubble (1936), p. 18.
220 quickly pinpointed whether they came from the East or West Coast of the United States: Smith (1982), p. 151.
220 “I want to compare them with the novae in spirals”: HUA, van Maanen to Shapley, February 18, 1925.
220 “I am completely at a loss to know what to believe”: HUA, Shapley to van Maanen, March 8, 1925.
220 “what to think of your confounded spirals”: HUA, Shapley to van Maanen, April 6, 1931.
221 “van Maanen's contradiction disturbed her husband so greatly”: Sandage (2004), p. 528.
221 “a decided internal motion in the same direction”: Hale, Adams, and Seares (1931), p. 200.
221 “They asked me to give him time. Well, I gave him time, I gave him ten years”: HUB, Box 16, remembrance by Grace Hubble to Michael Hoskin, March 7, 1968.
221 Van Maanen was sure that Hubble had been heading up a cabal to deny him a fair share of time on the 100-inch. That's when van Maanen slapped his sign on the front of the Blink, warning others not to use the machine without his permission: Christianson (1995), p. 231.
221 The skirmish even extended into the dining room atop Mount Wilson: AIP, interview of Olin Wilson by David DeVorkin on July 11, 1978.
222 “Hubble skillfully employed trial tactics”: Hetherington (1990a), p. 23.
222 “no evidence of motion”: HUB, Box 3, Folder 52.
222 “Its language was intemperate in many places”: HL, Adams Papers, Adams to Merriam, August 15, 1935.
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