Eminent Victorians, by Lytton Strachey
The last post from the History Book Club, and my favorite.
Category Archives: History
Eminent Victorians
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Akira Kurosawa
Still from Ikiru
Another post from the History Book Club, based on:
- The Films of Akira Kurosawa, by Donald Richie
- The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa, by Stephen Price
- Something Like an Autobiography, by Akira Kurosawa.
- Commentary tracks in the Criterion Collection
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The Peloponnesian War
Another post from the History Book Club.
Donald Kagan: Ancient Greek History; The Peloponnesian War
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The Monoenergetic Heresy (Part 2)
In Part 1, I mentioned my (momentary) discombobulation when I learned about the 6th century Monoenergetic Heresy—long before ‘energy’ entered the physics lexicon. What’s going on? But as I said, “Of course you know the answer: Aristotle.”
Over the years, I’ve dipped in Aristotle’s works several times. Caveat: I’m a dilettante here. Or to borrow the disclaimer that used to grace horoscope columns, what follows is “for entertainment purposes only”.
Aristotle, Weight Loss Guru Continue reading
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Selections from the History of Astronomy
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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:
- To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science, by Steven Weinberg.
- The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, by J.L. Heilbron.
- The Composition of Kepler’s Astronomia Nova, by James Voelkel.
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The Secret History of the Mongols
National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Another post from the History Book Club.
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Science and the Founding Fathers
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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Cornflakes and Bonti Knives
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The Peloponnesian War
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Socrates, Bad Guy
The Death of Socrates, Jacques Louis David.
(From Wikimedia Commons)
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