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Featured in the Spring 2003 Issue
Vol. 16, No. 1

FEATURES

MUSIC AND THE UNSOLVED PARADOX OF PYTHAGORAS
Violin Building and the World of Harmonic Sound • full pdf
by Caroline Hartmann
Intervals in classical musical performance cannot be expressed by a predetermined mathematical ratio, nor can the building of great musical instruments be reduced to a formula.

Appendix 1
On the Causes of the Different Colors of the Scale
"A Completely Pure Music Is Absolutely Impossible"

Appendix 2
The Construction of the Violin's Vaulting Curves

CLIMATE AND KEPLERIAN PLANETARY DYNAMICS
The 'Solar Jerk,' the King-Hele Cycle, And the Challenge to Climate Science
Rhodes W. Fairbridge
A senior Earth scientist divulges some little-known discoveries in planetary dynamics, and how they may affect Earth's climate.


EXPEDITION ARES
Inroduction: Krafft Ehricke's Manned Mission to Mars
Marsha Freeman



A 1979 painting of
Mars by Krafft Ehricke.


A Saga from the Dawn of Interplanetary Travel
Krafft A. Ehricke
An imaginary account of space travel in the year 2050, written in 1948 by preeminent space visionary Krafft Ehricke (1917-1984). These are excerpts from his unpublished 1948 manuscript.
• partial text


NEWS
SPACE

Shuttle 'Fix' Means a Change in Economic Policy Axioms
by Marsha Freeman

INDEX
2002 Author and Subject Index

DEPARTMENTS
EDITORIAL

On the Latest Shuttle Failure: Blame the Bookkeeper Mentality
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

LETTERS

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
A Puzzling Current Loop
by Vincent Morin

Was the Antikythera an Ancient Instrument for Longitude Determination?
by Richard Sanders

NEWS BRIEFS

BOOKS
Astronomy Encyclopedia: An A-Z Guide to the Universe
Sir Patrick Moore, General Editor
Reviewed by David Cherry

Touch the Universe: A NASA Braille Book of Astronomy
by Noreen Grice
Reviewed by John Covici

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