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Armillary Sphere, Facade of Santa Maria Novella (Wikimedia Commons)
Another post from the History Book Club, this time based on three books:
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National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Another post from the History Book Club.
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Another post from the History Book Club. It seemed particularly appropriate for today (January 20th, Inauguration Day).
Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and James Madison,
by I. Bernard Cohen, W.W. Norton & Company, 1995.
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The Death of Socrates, Jacques Louis David.
(From Wikimedia Commons)
Another post from the History Book Club. Continue reading
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Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People
Another post from the History Book Club. Continue reading
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Another post from the History Book Club.
(Why ‘atomic bomb’ rather than ‘nuclear bomb’? See this post.)
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For a few years, I belonged to a history book club. Unlike many book clubs, we didn’t all read the same book. Instead, we’d pick a topic for the next meeting, at which the participants would each give short presentations on books of their choosing.
Recently I ran across my write-ups. As the internet has yet to run out of space, I thought I’d post them. I begin with two on the atomic bomb.
(Why ‘atomic bomb’, rather than ‘nuclear bomb’? See this post.)
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Diagonal Argument 