An anecdotal description of the trials and tribulations encountered by the first investigators in the field of x-ray optics starting in the late 1940s and how they managed to overcome them is provided. Some of the players, in addition to the author, included Paul Kirkpatrick, Hussein El Sum, and Howard Pattee of Stanford. At the University of Redlands we became interested in producing an x-ray ...

The work that Nadar devoted to Baudelaire is largely based on correspondence documents (sometimes the only copies we have of them), and moreover it brings together anecdotes which go beyond character spread over other acquaintances their common youth, through his memory events, suggesting dating first compositions help clarify origin creation.