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Originally published in June 1899 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “Dr. Edward C. Spitzka, of New York, the noted alienist, has recently…
The universe is a stupendously vast and puzzling place. Millennia of scientific advances have incrementally increased our understanding of it,…
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