Cosmic Relief.(Brief Article)

IT TAKES A SPECIAL TURN OF MIND to look at the sky and see goats, celestial twins, and bearskin-clad hunters--an elaborating mind, well upholstered with primary images. In short, that of a Greek shepherd whose ears ring with the lliad and the Odyssey. A somewhat plainer imagination--say that of a Shaker lying in the grass on a summer night--could come up with the Big Dipper and, should the fancy strike, populate the heavens with curved scythes, straight-backed chairs, and oval button boxes.

Then, there are those paradigm-makers and -breakers who search the void for dwarf stars and ...

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