Sunday, March 28, 2010

John Banville, The Infinities (2009)

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In The Beginnings of Western Science ( March 24, 2010 post ), David Lindberg states that the Sixth Century (B.C.) Milesians of antiquity po...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

David C. Lindberg, The Beginnings of Western Science (2d ed. 2007)

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Following footnotes, I fear, is not a passion of many students today. Lawyers understand the importance of following footnotes, because the ...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Harold A. Ellis, Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy (1988)

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Bernard Mandeville ( January 31 post ) and Henri Boulainvilliers may not have known of each other, but they were contemporaries, separated b...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of The Bees (1723)

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I first learned of Mandeville when reading Jonathan Israel's Radical Enlightenment , a history of the 17 th century ideas that largely...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Gwyneth Cravens, Power To Save The World (2007)

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Three years ago, I heard a presentation by the head of the Nuclear Energy Institute about the history and then-current status of the nuclear...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Richard Powers, Generosity (2009)

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Two years ago, I read a wonderfully conceived novel by Richard Powers entitled The Echo Maker . Introducing his readers to some of the marve...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Bert Hölldobler & E.O. Wilson, The Superorganism (2008)

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Human ( September 27 post ) , Mirroring People ( September 18 post ) , and The First Word ( August 31 post ) all stress the social nature ...