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| # | Query | Useful hits |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Edgar Lucien Larkin" Lowe Observatory |
Wikipedia; Altadena Historical Society "A digital history of Mount Lowe"; PBS SoCal "Lost LA: The Wizard of Echo Mountain" (2021); Huntington Digital Library photo; NYT obituary 13 Oct 1924 ("Director of Mount Lowe Observatory ... since 1890" per snippet); Mount Lowe Preservation Society; AAAIM (Echo Mountain Echoes); Newspapers.com clip (Pomona Progress, 13 Oct 1924); Scientific American author page; USC Libraries "The Wizard of Echo Mountain" (2020) |
| 2 | "magnetic storm" "July 16, 1892" telegraph Boston Providence milli-amperes |
no exact match; general Carrington-event pages only |
| 3 | site:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu "Larkin" "Open Court" Lowe Observatory |
Open Court items: "Electricity and the Body of Resurrection" (article=1742, with "A Letter from an Astronomer", Larkin); "The Udana"/"Book Reviews and Notes" (1692/1693, a review saying "Professor Larkin is perhaps given to a love of the occult"); Open Court 1906 issue with a Larkin article dated "Lowe Observatory, August, 1906" (2040); "A Retrospect and a Prospect" (2064) |
| 4 | "Larkin" "Lowe Observatory" "stellar floor" OR "starless fields" OR "abyss" nebula |
PASP 1902 "General Notes" (IOP DOI 10.1086/121462: "Mount Lowe Observatory ... The stellar floor"); Scientific American 1910 "Gigantic Abyss in the Great Nebula in Orion"; several religious (Adventist) sites quoting Larkin's Orion "abyss" (stepstolife.org, creationismonline.com, angusmcphee.wordpress.com "Appendix 5: The 'open space' in Orion?") |
| 5 | Birkeland 1896 aurora cathode rays from the sun terrella history |
Wikipedia "Terrella"; INIS record; Planeterrella (OSUG); Lilensten et al. 2013, J. Space Weather Space Clim. (swsc120039): "In 1896 Birkeland published his theory about the aurora, where he postulated that it was caused by cathode rays streaming out from the Sun" |
| 6 | "Larkin" "Examiner" 1902 "radiant energy" Lowe corpuscles OR "magnetic storm" |
IAPSOP Progressive Thinker 24 Sep 1904 (quotes Larkin via the Chicago Examiner); Progressive Thinker 31 Mar 1906 (book notice "Radiant Energy and Its Analysis ... By Prof. Edgar L. Larkin"); The Alkaloidal Clinic March 1904 (book notice) |
| 7 | "Larkin" "New Windsor" Illinois observatory astronomer 1880s |
Wikipedia; AAAIM 1998 biography (6-inch Clark at New Windsor, 1 Jan 1880); Prabook ("director New Windsor (Illinois) Observatory, 1880-1888"); social-media posts on the Knox College observatory history |
| 8 | "Larkin" "Hallock" "Open Court" electricity "body of resurrection" |
OpenSIUC item; IAPSOP: Charles Hallock, Luminous Bodies: Here and Hereafter (1906), which reprints the Larkin letter; bepress listing (authors H. L. Stetson, Edgar L. Larkin, Charles Hallock, Paul Carus) |
| 9 | "Gigantic Abyss in the Great Nebula in Orion" Larkin 1910 |
Scientific American Supplement 69 no.1784 (12 Mar 1910) pp.175-176, doi:10.1038/scientificamerican03121910-175supp (from Mindat listing) |
Related work found (priority 3)
- Kristian Birkeland, 1896: aurora caused by cathode rays (charged corpuscles) streaming from the sun, demonstrated with a magnetised sphere (terrella) in a vacuum chamber, 1896-1917 [web: https://www.swsc-journal.org/ (Lilensten et al. 2013, swsc120039), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrella]. Bears on claim 2: Larkin also reproduced auroral forms in Crookes/Geissler tubes with an electromagnet (book pp.137-142) and also used Thomson's "corpuscles", but he made the solar link an EM wave at light speed, not a particle stream. Birkeland's terrella is the best-known laboratory analogue of Larkin's tube demonstrations; the reviewers can compare them.