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De Camp and Ley have claimed ( in their Lands Beyond ) that Leonhard Euler also proposed a hollow-Earth idea, getting rid of multiple shells and postulating an interior sun across to provide light to advanced inner-Earth civilization but they provide no references ; indeed, Euler did not propose a hollow-Earth, but there is a slightly related thought experiment.
De Camp and Ley also claim that Sir John Leslie expanded on Euler's idea, suggesting two central suns named Pluto and Proserpine ( this was unrelated to the dwarf planet Pluto, which was discovered and named some time later ).
In particular, De Camp argued the plots of the novels are heavily driven by coincidence ; while many things just happened in the romances, the novels are still weakened by the dependence on it.
De Camp was born in New York City, one of three sons of Lyon de Camp and Emma Beatrice Sprague.
De Camp once noted that he rarely used pen-names, " partly because my own true name sounds more like a pseudonym than most pseudonyms do.
An aeronautical engineer by profession, De Camp conducted his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology ( where his roommate was at one point noted rocket fuel scientist John D. Clark ), and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Caltech in Aeronautical Engineering 1930.
De Camp was also a surveyor and an expert in patents.
De Camp eventually rose to the rank of lieutenant commander in the U. S. Navy as a reserve officer.
De Camp was a member of the all-male literary and dining club the " Trap Door Spiders " in New York City, which served as the basis of Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the " Black Widowers ".
De Camp was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers ' Guild of America ( SAGA ), a loosely-knit group of Heroic fantasy writers that was founded during the 1960s.
De Camp was a materialist who wrote works examining society, history, technology and myth.
De Camp had the mind of an educator, and a common theme in many of his works is a corrective impulse regarding similar previous works by other authors.
De Camp wrote a number of lesser-known but nonetheless significant works that explored such topics as racism, which he considered to be more accurately described as ethnocentrism.
De Camp was best known for his light fantasy, particularly the " Harold Shea " series and " Gavagan's Bar " series, both written in collaboration with his longtime friend Fletcher Pratt.
De Camp also produced a few more of this genre on his own.
De Camp wrote three sword and sorcery sequences of note.
De Camp also wrote historical fiction, set in the era of classical antiquity from the height of the Persian Empire to the waning of the Hellenistic period, which forms a loosely-connected series based on their common setting and occasional cross references.
De Camp enjoyed debunking doubtful history and pseudoscientific claims of the supernatural, and explaining how ancient civilizations produced structures and architecture thought by some to be beyond the technologies of their time, such as the Pyramids of Ancient Egypt.
De Camp was guest of honor at the 1966 World Science Fiction Convention.
De la Union sent Montforte with 2, 800 infantry and 800 cavalry to reinforce the Camp of Trompettes and Del Puerto with 2, 000 more to help Venegas.
De La Soul have influenced numerous other hip hop artists such as Camp Lo, The Black Eyed Peas, and Digable Planets.
Upon the urging and encouragement of the activist Cardinal Archbishop of Manila Jaime Sin, millions of Filipinos trooped to Camp Aguinaldo along Epifanio De los Santos Avenue ( EDSA ), where Enrile and Ramos have been holding operations, to give their moral support and prayers for the reformist soldiers.
In comedy he was ably supported by his wife, Marie Therese De Camp, whom he married on 2 July 1806.

De and himself
Rameau's Six Concerts En Sextuor, recorded by L'orchestre De Chambre Pierre Menet ( BAM LD 046 ), turn out to be harpsichord pieces arranged for strings apparently by the composer himself.
Synesius ' De regno, which claims to be addressed to Arcadius himself, contains a tirade against Goths.
The film boasted a larger budget than Carrie, though the consensus view at the time was that De Palma was repeating himself, with diminishing returns.
Van Doesburg wrote Dada poetry himself in De Stijl, although under a pseudonym, I. K.
In response, Luther wrote his De servo arbitrio ( On the Bondage of the Will ) ( 1525 ), which attacks the " Diatribe " and Erasmus himself, going so far as to claim that Erasmus was not a Christian.
Between 1922 and 1934, Armstrong found himself embroiled in a patent war, between himself, RCA, and Westinghouse on one side, and De Forest and AT & T on the other.
The exact nature of the " re-discovery " has been somewhat debated: De Vries published first on the subject, mentioning Mendel in a footnote, while Correns pointed out Mendel's priority after having read De Vries's paper and realizing that he himself did not have priority.
Rome instructed De Vecchi that he was to receive the reinforcement from Eritrea, but that the commander of the two battalions was to temporarily assume the military command of the operations and De Vecchi was to stay in Mogadishu and confine himself to other colonial matters.
Paul Schrader does not take credit for the line, saying that his script only read, " Travis speaks to himself in the mirror ", and that De Niro improvised the dialogue.
With the patronage of the university chancellor Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Rudbeck was made full professor in 1660, was elected rector for two terms, despite his youth, and started a revision of the work of the other professors and a building spree with himself as architect.
In 1543, Vesalius asked Johannes Oporinus to help publish the seven-volume De humani corporis fabrica ( On the fabric of the human body ), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy he dedicated to Charles V and which most believe was illustrated by Titian's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar, though others believe was illustrated by different artists working in the studio of Titian, and not from Van Calcar himself.
De Broglie himself had proposed a pilot wave construct to explain the observed wave – particle duality.
In Africa Cyprian courageously prepared his people for the expected edict of persecution by his " De exhortatione martyrii ," and himself set an example when he was brought before the Roman proconsul Aspasius Paternus ( August 30, 257 ).
De Bello Gallico consists of eight books: seven written by Caesar himself, and the eighth book added later by Aulus Hirtius, one of Caesar's generals.
Ernst delivered songs about getting the cold shoulder ( Situatie ), sleeping with a 16-year-old ( Belle Helene, featuring a sax-solo from the man himself ) and dumping a girl for being overexperienced ( De Eerste Keer ).
He succeeds in killing De Vries — and himself — but not the Baron.
De Montfort, who had remained in England to prepare for the ruling, at once resumed the war and thus exposed himself to accusations of perjury, from which he can only be defended on the hypothesis that he had been led to hope for a genuine compromise.
DiCaprio made his big screen breakthrough in 1992, when he was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in This Boy's Life, co-starring Ellen Barkin and De Niro himself.
Zhang demanded that one of his own generals, Chen Changhao, take over Zhou's position as political commissar of the entire Red Army, and suggested that Zhang himself replace Zhu De on the Military Commission.
* 1924: De Corlieu leaves the French Navy to fully devote himself to his invention.

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