To: Physicist; RadioAstronomer; Tax-chick; Xenalyte; MississippiMalcontent; tarzantheapeman
Bibliopath ping!
A personal note: when Elmer Andersen, the former governor of Minnesota, passed away earlier this year, he bequeathed a huge book collection to the libraries, and I have the job of going through them and classifying them. Among the treasures I've found: a first printing of Henry George's Progress and Poverty, and an 1837 printing of Edmund Burke's Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful. Physicist, take note: one of the books he had in his collection was Leon Lederman's The God Particle, one of my all time favorite physics books.
To: RightWingAtheist
Cool! Iirc, a substantial amount of the Babylonian tablets found have been public-works accounting records. People are always the same ...
20 posted on
10/19/2005 6:33:48 PM PDT by
Tax-chick
("Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. ")
To: RightWingAtheist; RadioAstronomer
Ooh, sounds like a wonderful assignment! How many volumes?
Best recent acquisition: a fine 1928 copy of Fum Boonastiel, a Pennsylvania Dutch classic by T. H. Harter, discovered at an AAUW book sale on the rainiest day in the history of Allentown.
To: RightWingAtheist
I have meant to send you mail for days about that. :-(
That is just way cool.
22 posted on
10/19/2005 6:52:37 PM PDT by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
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