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Bohuslav Brauner
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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Entente Scientific Literature in Central Europe during the War
THE chief object of my letter, "A Tribute from Prague," published in NATURE of December 11, 1919, was to congratulate the Editor upon the jubilee number and to express my delight at again being able to obtain ...
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A Tribute from Prague
PERMIT me to congratulate you upon the jubilee issue of November 6, which has just reached me and has been received with great pleasure, for the last number of NATURE which reached me before this was that of J...
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New Units in Aerology
IN NATURE of March 19, p. 58, Prof. McAdie discusses the question of the new units in aerology, and says that now is the time to agree upon a logical and available system, considers the megabar atmosphere the ...
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Helium and Neon
THE experiments communicated to the Chemical Society recently by Prof. Collie and Mr. Patterson, the lectures delivered by Sir J. J. Thomson, and the discussions which have taken place in NATURE, on the possib...
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A New Method of Chemical Analysis
THE author of the present note is probably one of the few chemists living who was originally brought up in the Berzelian electrochemical theory (for which idea Berzelius was indebted to Davy), and, as shown in...
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The Fox and the Fleas
THE story of the fox and the fleas, published in NATURE of March 23, is not current among Celtic people only. As Bohemia is a country full of fields, pastures, ponds, brooks, and forests, the last often being ...
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The Gases of the Ring Nebula in Lyra
EVERY friend of astronomical research has learned with great pleasure the news that Prof. Wolf, of Heidelberg, has succeeded in proving by spectrum photography that the well-known ring nebula in Lyra consists ...
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The Recent Nocturnal Glows
THE peculiar light phenomenon at midnight on June 30, which was seen, according to the papers, on the northern part of the sity at Copenhagen, Königsberg, Berlin, Vienna, Biala, and other places, was also obse...
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The Complex Nature of Thorium
WITH regard to several letters on thorium and its complex nature that appeared in NATURE of March 24 and 31, April 7 and 14, and in which my name is mentioned, I take the liberty of adding a few remarks, havin...
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The Tercentenary of Tycho Brahe's Death
ON October 24, 300 years had elapsed since Tycho Brahe died at Prague, expressing in his last moments the hope that he might not appear to have lived in vain. When saying this he doubtless did not fear that th...
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Sun Columns at Night
A REMARKABLE phenomenon, similar to that which I described in 1888 (NATURE, vol. xxxviii. p. 414), was witnessed by me on the evening of March 13. At 7h. 7m. p.m. I saw on the western sky five silvery white co...
