“The new and the old methods complete one another on numerous points, and their simultaneous use will increase our knowledge”

—  Bernard Lyot

The study of the solar corona and prominences without eclipses (George Darwin Lecture) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1939).
Context: The new and the old methods complete one another on numerous points, and their simultaneous use will increase our knowledge of the outer atmosphere of the Sun much more rapidly.

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