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IT is possible that the enclosed photograph and lines might not be out of place in NATURE as a sequel to Sir Richard Paget's verses of June 15, 1935. So far as I can remember, I took the photograph some time after the year 1912 when my paper on rotating films appeared (Proc. Roy. Soc., 87) and the Rainbow Cup became a popular scientific toy. I then intended to get out a third edition of my book on “Soap Bubbles” with the Rainbow Cup as the chief addition, and the idea of the fake photograph occurred to me as being a permissible diversion. Stumbling upon this at the present time, with the Paget verses fresh in memory, the seven lines with the photograph, of which three are quoted, flashed across my mind and seemed appropriate for publication. This must be my apology.
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BOYS, C. A Flight of Pure Imagination. Nature 150, 464 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150464b0
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