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| | John Q. Stewart Papers |
 | | Beginning in 1946, Stewart became interested in social physics, a field inaugurated by the astronomer Edmund Halley in 1693 which demonstrates the use of physical laws in the realm of the social sciences. |
 | | His published books include Astronomy: A Revision of Young's Manual of Astronomy (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1926), co-authored with Henry Norris Russell and Raymond Smith Dugan, Marine and Air Navigation (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1944), co-authored with Newton L. Pierce, and Coasts, Waves, and Weather for Navigators (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1945). |
 | | Stewart was a prolific writer of articles documenting his investigations in the areas of astronomy, astrophysics, cartography, demography, demography in relation to geography, gyromagnetic effect, hurricanes, ionized gases, lunar craters, meteorology, navigational methods, philosophy of science, physics, sociology, solar eclipses, space travel, speech and hearing, stellar atmospheres, sunspots, and weather cycles. |
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