Friday, February 10, 2006
Royal Society
After reading Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy, I have the entirely ridiculous notion that I am on intimate terms with the 17th century scientists who were members of the Royal Society (Newton, Wren, Hooke and co.) I'm therefore delighted to see that the Society minutes have been discovered in someone's cupboard.
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I'm slogging through Quicksilver at the moment. Coupled with reading some stuff on Bacon, plus having written a chunk a while back on the Enlightment and the imago Dei, means that it all seems a little too real.
Keep wanting to check his footnotes.
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