Abstract
DR. R. O. REDMAN has put forward a number of interestics predictic as about the future of astronomy (Observatory, 66, 828 ; October 1945). It is suggested that astronomy will have a hard struggle to survive except in so far as it is required for time service, for navigation and surveying ; or except for the part of solar physics which has an immediate bearing on terrestrial affairs. It is admitted that a very strong utilitarian case cannot be made out for modern astronomy and, in spite of apparent exceptions, much stronger arguments for astronomy can be made on aesthetic grounds. Civilized man should have as much appreciation of astronomical discovery as he has of architecture, music, the drama, or even of pure mathematics or philosophy. Good popularization of astronomy, as indeed of any science, is a difficult task, and it is suggested that professional astronomers should consider it their duty to devote a certain amount of time to explaining the aims and achievements of astronomy to the general public, or even to fellow men of science, who are sometimes very ignorant of the subject.
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