"Frank W. Very" astronomer Westwood Astrophysical Observatory: Wikipedia; ADS (Ogden 1928 memoriam, Popular Astronomy 36:391); Dollar Bank history page; JSTOR (H. H. Clayton 1927 obituary in Science); Nature 1911 Mars water vapour letter; PASP death notice; ADS 1915 earth-shine spectrography.
"Very" "New-Church Review" ether OR aura OR Swedenborg Principia Westwood: AbeBooks listing (see its note); readanybook.com online text of the 1919 book [web] http://www.readanybook.com/online/ (not opened); archive.org New Church items.
Fessenden "Gyroscopic Quanta" Science 1914: science.org DOI 10.1126/science.39.1006.533.b; JSTOR; mindat reference; radiocom.net/Seitz (a Fessenden bibliography listing "Transformation of Gravitational Waves into Ether Vortices", Science 17 Oct 1913; "Gyroscopic Quanta", 10 Apr 1914; "Quantum Radiation a..." [title cut off]); De Gruyter "Appendix I" (a Fessenden bibliography); Scribd copy of Fessenden's The Deluged Civilization of the Caucasus Isthmus (it mentions gyroscopic quanta and "transformation of radiation into matter", Science Oct ...).
"Very" "luminiferous ether" 1919 review "Four Seas" OR "Westwood" Swedenborg aura: nothing new (readanybook again; a Scribd yoga-history PDF; MIT Press endnotes). No contemporary review of the 1919 book found.
"Westwood Astrophysical Observatory" history Westwood Massachusetts Very:
- Dollar Bank page snippet [web] https://dollar.bank/about/our-history/frank-w-very: "In 1906, Very was invited by businessman, mathematician and astronomer Percival Lowell to do his research at the newly built Westwood Astrophysical Observatory". The page itself was blocked (extension permission).
- Science obituary notice [web] https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.66.1718.536 ("director of the Westwood Astrophysical Observatory").
- Very, "On Nipher's 'Gravitational' Experiment and the Anomalies ...", Science, 30 Jan 1920 (science.org). Very wrote this after the 1919 book, on F. E. Nipher's claimed electrical effects on gravitation. It bears on claim 6 (gravity as an electrical/aura pulsation). Not read: science.org paywall; outside JSTOR Early Journal Content? (IA title search for "nipher" 1918-1921 gave 0.)
- University of Pittsburgh, Guide to the Allegheny Observatory Records, 1850-1988 [web] https://digital.library.pitt.edu (pitt:us-ppiu-uarg51). It has a correspondence file "Very, Frank (Westwood Astrophysical Observatory)". This is an archival lead for the Westwood years (priority 4).
"Frank W. Very" Swedenborg "New Philosophy" OR "Swedenborg Scientific Association" Principia: the Swedenborgian Church's New-Church Messenger, July 1900, PDF [web] https://swedenborg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Messenger-07-1900.pdf. Snippet: "A lengthy paper by Professor Frank W. Very on ...". This shows Very's Swedenborgian writing by 1900. Not opened (PDF).