Fig. 1: Front cover
of Coelum, founded by Horn in 1931.
(Credit: Biblioteca
del Dipartimento di Astronomia dell'Università degli Studi di Bologna) |
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Publications
Horn d'Arturo founded the magazine
Coelum in 1931, being convinced that the astronomer should not lock
himself away in an ivory tower but should rather confront questioning from
the community and so draw public attention to his subject.
This was the first Italian magazine
of astronomy to achieve vast popularity amongst its large number of
subscribers, thanks to the simple but never banal tone it used to discuss
major topics of astronomy. Coelum outlived Horn and was published
until 1986.
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