Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1928, Page 16

16 = LFESHVIG ADE BY STUDY OF HOON Yale Mathematician Holds British Medal Awarded for Valuable Tables. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., November 12.— A small white-walled room in the obe- servatory p the highest hill on Yale's campus is the office of a man who af- fects the daily welfare of nearly as many persons as that of a Ford, a Durant or a Rockefeller, yet who is almost un- known outside his own professional circle. He is Dr. Ernest William Brown, mew president of the American As- tronomical Association and Sterling professor of mathematics at Yale. On a shelf in his office stands a book almost as thick as a dictionary, Dr. Brown's “Yale Tables of the Moon's Motion,” which he spent 25 years of imathematical calculations to produce. From this book and from computations | of a small group of Dr. Brown's fellow mathematicians are derived tables used by navigators to insure safety of life and merchandise carried on the seven seas. For the Yale Tables the author |# received the gold medal of the Royal Society of England. Object of Rescarch. ief object in these laborious ns on the moon's orbit was whether the attractions of and all other known bodies in the solar system can account,completely for the m 's motion. Many times in the past it has been suspected that this attraction was not sufficient. Other forces have been in- voked to account for outstanding effects, such as electrical attractions and re- pulsions and magnetic effects. But Prof. Brown showed conclusively that the motion can be accounted for com- pletely by gravitation. Such calculations, say Dr. Brown's mssociates, must be made, like poetry, ‘when a man is in the mood. The Yale mathematician does much of his crea- tive work in his study at home and on his farm. This farm is like few others. It is 2 small, colonial place, near Salem, Conn., 150 years old, kept and beauti- fied by Dr. Brown's own hands. Four full months each Summer he spends there alone, for he is a bachelor—rais- ing his own vegetable garden, refusing to have even a telephone to intrude. ‘There, when he pleases, he does pro- found research. Reads Detective Stories. At Yale His interests and companion- ships are widespread. He travels about | in one of the best known old cars on | the campus. One favorite recreation of his is reading detective stories. On occasion he can put his as- tronomical observations into vivid | § words. “Well, boys,” he said to news- paper men after a total eclipse, “the ce::gfm express was three seconds Several divines took him to task for what they said was daring to question the plans of Providence. But none disputed his figures. He has recently finished calculations showing that the earth is rotating on its axis about one- ;l:zc-hundredths of a second daily too - AUSTRIA CELEBRATES BIRTH-OF REPUBLIC Higher Ranks See Little to Be Thankful for in Disintegra- tion of Empire. By the Assoclated Press. VIENNA, November 12.—While most of the world was celebrating the tenth anniversary of the termination of the ‘World War, republican Austria today commemorated the tenth anniversary of the death of the mighty imperial Aus- tro-Hungarian empire, from whose ashes sprung the free. but feeble Austrian republic of today. Only the working masses and the Socialists participated whole-heartedly in today’s ceremenies. The higher ranks of Austrian social life saw little to be thankful for.in an event which reduced their country and population to one- eighth of its former size and almost pauperized the upper classes. Fourteen thousend persons who had violated various laws were granted amnesty. “‘Austria cannot celebrate 10 years of existence as a republic as a feast day ip thé true sense of the word,” Chan- ‘cellor Seipel said sadly to the Assoclated correspondent after he had cele- brated his daily mass. , “The beginning of the life of our ‘people under a republic will always be associated with sad recollections of great distress. However, We commemorate the day with some modest pride arising out of the fact that our Eeople by straining their own strength to the ost, and with help from abroad, de- spite such a trying beginning, have suoceeded in finding a path that leads aupward.” . " Quezon Ordered to Rest. 11, MANILA, November 12 (#).—Although Manuel L. 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