JF Ptak Science Books Daily Dose from Dr. Odd
Evidently all roads lead someplace other than Rome–a bold statement of imaginary cartographic exactness to come from a soap company. What perhaps trumps this oddness is that this ad was improbably featured as a big back-of-the-cover ad in the relatively new Astrophysical Journal for November 1908. I’m not suggesting that astronomers and astrophysicists don’t use soap, of course, but to find this ad as about the only piece of external revenue in this journal is very surprising. Perhaps the owner/manufacturer had an interest in astronomy and gave a little funding to the publication…
Here’s a more global outlook of the capacity of a soap-like cure: