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223 “no compromise, no compromise”: AIP, interview of Nicholas U. Mayall, June 3, 1976.
223 “I do not feel that Hubble's attitude in this matter was in any way justified”: HL, Adams Papers, Adams to Merriam, August 15, 1935.
223 “Print what you like, but print it elsewhere”: HP, Seares to Hale, January 24, 1935. Historian Robert Smith was the first to track down the correspondence on this matter and bring this skirmish to light. See Smith (1982), pp. 135–36.
223 “The attitude of van Maanen in the matter was much superior to that of Hubble”: HL, Adams to Merriam, August 15, 1935.
223 “recognized this curious ‘blind spot’ in almost every important dealing”: HL, Adams to Merriam, February 19, 1936.
224 “Great men have to go their own way”: Christianson (1995), p. 225.
224 “With Edwin, it was out of sight, out of mind”: Ibid., p. 61.
224 accompanied by a paper by van Maanen in which he acknowledged the existence of possible errors: Van Maanen's first draft essentially just restated his results. There's considerable evidence that Adams then intervened and dictated some concessionary phrases, which van Maanen agreed to. Brashear and Hetherington (1991), pp. 419–20.
224 brief note came out in the May 1935 issue of the Astrophysical Journal: Hubble (1935).
224 had van Maanen's paper immediately follow: Van Maanen (1935).
224 whenever the two passed each other in the observatory hallways, they exchanged not a word: AIP, interviews of Nicholas U. Mayall, June 3, 1976, and February 13, 1977.
14. Using the 100-Inch Telescope the Way It Should Be Used
225 “shun us like a plague”: Eddington (1928), p. 166.
225 more than three hundred delegates attended the gathering, where they were entertained with boat excursions down the city's noted canals: LWA, Lampland to Slipher, July 8, 1928.
225 “Most of the Americans appear to be over here this summer”: LWA, Lampland to Slipher, August 8, 1928.
225 appointed acting chairman of the IAU Nebulae Commission: Stratton (1929), p. 250.
226 his magisterial 1926 paper: Hubble (1926).
226 “consistent with the marked tendency already observed”: Humason (1927), p. 318.
226 de Sitter encouraged Hubble at this time to extend the redshift measurements of the spiral nebulae: This is according to Milton Humason as stated in HUB, Box 7, Grace's memoir.
226 “The Flagstaff assault on these objects”: HUA, Shapley to Russell, May 22, 1929.
227 “I didn't feel much enthusiasm” … “test of endurance”: HUB, Box 7, Grace's memoir.
227 one summer as a teenager … taking any astronomer who wanted to go with him: Sandage (2004), p. 527.
227 Mount Wilson hotel: The hotel was built in 1905 by the Mount Wilson Toll Road and Hotel Company. The original structure burned down in 1913 but was soon rebuilt and remained open until 1963. Sandage (2004), p. 24.
227 tracked the animal down and shot him between the eyes: Sutton (1933b), p. I4.
228 Humason was even put in charge of scheduling telescope time: Sandage (2004), p. 185.
229 He accomplished this feat by establishing a ladder of measurements: Hubble (1929a).
229 to directly obtain the distances to six relatively nearby galaxies: The sixth galaxy was actually done indirectly; it was a companion to one of the five and hence assumed to be a similar distance.
229 “Mr. Strömberg has very kindly checked the general order of these values…. Solutions of this sort have been published by Lundmark”: Hubble (1929a), p. 171.
230 He didn't even like Lundmark: Smith (1982), p. 183.
230 Hubble held up publication of his data to make sure he had nailed down every argument: HUA, Hubble to Shapley, May 15, 1929.
230 “There is more to the advance of science than new observations and new theories”: Hetherington (1996), p. 126.
231 “For such scanty material, so poorly distributed, the results are fairly definite”: Hubble (1929a), p. 170.
232 “I agreed to try one exposure”: AIP, interview of Milton Humason by Bert Shapiro, around 1965.
232 “that the mountain itself is rolling