Friday, February 10, 2006
Royal Society Discovery
This story is pretty cool-- a 520 page manuscript of the minutes of the early meetings of the Royal Society, kept for 30 years (1661--1691) by scientist Robert Hooke, has been discovered in a trunk in a house in Hampshire.
This may not mean a lot to most of the few people who read this but to those who have taken the long, mostly pleasurable slog through the thousands of pages of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, it's like hearing new gossip about old friends.
(h/t Betsy's Page)
This may not mean a lot to most of the few people who read this but to those who have taken the long, mostly pleasurable slog through the thousands of pages of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, it's like hearing new gossip about old friends.
(h/t Betsy's Page)
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:48 AM 
