Contents of the site follow the poem

LINES INSPIRED BY SHELLEY'S "TO A SKYLARK" (1993)

(Thoughts of one viewing the first launch of the Space Plane)

Oh mighty phoenix of five billion spirits!
Thundering heavenwards on wings of glory:
The wide world pauses, joyed too much to bear it
As thou, oh star, rise ever, ever soaring!
Higher, ever higher, upon a wind of fire,
Thou roarest toward the far and deep unknown.
Thou reachest with a passion that aspires
The furthest planets, as a promise shown.
The multitudes look up with more than wonder,
For they know well their own role in thy making.
Yet, knowing this, more joyous is thy thunder,
Though distant rising, still yet greater shaking
Their consequence upon this wide world under:
Then rise oh star! Touch all men with thy beacon,
Thou that lift above an earthly vision.
Some watch thee silently, though some be weeping,
But all look down within their minds to listen:
The weary soldiers rest from endless warring
To sigh and turn their minds toward times of peace.
The poor and suffering children watch thee soaring.
Again they smile and wish to climb with thee.
Thou art the bearer of their earnest yearning,
Of thoughts more pure than any words assever,
A music brighter than the sun aburning
Within their hearts, still rising, ever, ever,
Yet, always closer to their homes returning.
---jeremy batterson

CONTENTS OF THE SITE:

1.BATTERSONIAN METHOD OF OPTICAL SURFACE GENERATION:
A Discovery in Optical Science
The INTERNAL Grinding Arrangement
The PEREXTERNAL Grinding Arrangement
The APEXTERNAL Grinding Arrangement
The Story of the Discovery

II. LITERARY:
Poems, in chronological order
Witticisms and related
Dialogue: A Philosophical Disproof of Reincarnation
Dialogue: On The Ontology of Man
Dialogue: In Which a Composer...
Dialogue: Tripping Lord Manur
Dialogue: (partial) The Queen's Calculus
Drama: A Tale of Old England
Drama:The Dreadful Inconstancy of General Ademek

III. ESSAYS and RELATED:
Political Backround
Letter to Lyndon LaRouche, 1997
Immigration: The Soul of Americans
The Truly Weird case of Maximus Fartimus
Organizing and the Dirichlet Principle
In Memory of historian Graham Lowry

1V.ASTRONOMY AND RELATED:
Theorem on Polygonally-Determined Ellipses
The Solar System's Kuiper Belt "Register Shift"
The Origin of the 'Solar Cycle', Revealed?
Preparing Scientific "Coup d'etat" against Newton Mafia
A (Kind of) Musical Offering

OTHER
In Memory of William Irving Batterson

To reach Jeremy Batterson, in Baltimore, Maryland, USA: jdbaterson@msn.com