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From 1908 onwards, Kapteyn was a part-time Research Associate at the Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, California. Between 1908 and 1914 he spent a few months there every year. His first visit to Mount Wilson, in 1908, coincided with the completion of the 60-inch telescope, the largest in the world at the time. George Hale, the founder of the Observatory, adopted Kapteyn’s Plan of Selected Areas as the main observing program for his new telescope. During his stay in 1910, Kapteyn attended the famous meeting of the Solar Union at Mount Wilson, which linked solar and stellar spectroscopic research, and was a key-note speaker. World War I prevented Kapteyn from making more visits after 1914. In 1911 the Astronomical Laboratory moved into its permanent location.
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Persiflage of Isaac Newton’s quote ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants’. Another is the anonymous ‘If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants are standing on my shoulders’.
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From Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas; Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. (Ecclesiastes 1:2)
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‘Oh mais quel triste emploi/ Quelle humiliante faiblesse/ Que de chiffrer toujours/ Que d’integrer sans cesse.’
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‘Quand on n’a pas ce qu’on aime, it faut aimer ce qu’on a’. This has been attributed to Roger de Rabertin , Comte de Bussy (1618–1693).
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van der Kruit, P.C. (2015). Mount Wilson. In: Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 416. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10876-6_13
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