The world has changed since 1899, but there are few fields that have changed more—in the development of fundamental insights and in the discovery of new phenomena—than astronomy. When we glance at the titles (see the box below) of some of the recent papers published, for example, in the Astrophysical Journal and Icarus, we can only conclude that our astronomical ancestors would have extracted a glimmer of meaning from them, but that the principal reaction would have been incredulity.
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