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THE organization of international co-operation must in the nature of things be very different in different branches of science. Thus in astronomy, where no one country can cover the whole of the heavens or observe the sun continually through the twenty-four hours of the day, progress in many branches of statistical and even observational astronomy must depend on observers working in many countries of the globe on mutually agreed programmes. In geodesy the shape of the earth can only be determined with the highest possible accuracy by the survey of long arcs passing through a number of countries. Meteorology, geography and radio-science similarly present obvious examples where international agreements can alone secure the maximum of beneficial results from separate sets of observations and from instrumental and theoretical developments.
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International Co-operation in Science. Nature 140, 337–338 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140337a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/140337a0