I am in here.
For those of you who live in Cincinnati and have any interest in attending my session of the Mercantile Library’s monthly book club (I get either the September or October session), the book I’m doing is Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver. Y’all can get your Very Own Copy by clicking on the following (they have a paperback, … Continue reading Mercantile Library Book Club
I only gave Kepler’s first 2 laws of planetary motion this morning. The reason for this is those were the only two listed in the Astronomia Nova, which is the book I was concerned with in my paper. The third one follows. One must strive for completion in these things. And I knew how disappointed … Continue reading A last bit of erudition for the night
How am I supposed to think about my heroes? Hero: Johannes Kepler. Developer of the three laws of planetary motion. And even more important, discoverer of the real scientific method. Been interested in him ever since I did a paper in History of Math class about the development of methods of solutions for Kepler’s Equation: … Continue reading Kepler, looked at again
I love it when people talk sense! I was beginning to think that, in order to be a blogger, I’d have to choose a side and defend it mindlessly against all comers. Lileks makes sense. As opposed to analog commissars? Look. We don’t have to agree on the big hard issues, but we can certainly … Continue reading Balance
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