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In the early pages of The Information, Gleick writes a good deal about communication: African talking drums, for...
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In the early pages of The Information, Gleick writes a good deal about communication: African talking drums, for...
As I understand it, the principal virtue of popular science writing — indeed writing for a general audience about any...
So, remember when I was saying that I might just re-read books for the rest of the year? Seemed like a good idea —...
Here’s the funny thing about bookblogging: I tend to feel that it’s okay to blog my way through older...
One last thought about The New Atlantis. Here’s how the Father of Salomon’s House describes the various roles of...
The third section of The New Atlantis concerns the narrator’s interview with the Father of Salomon’s House,...
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Bacon’s unfinished The New Atlantis falls quite naturally into three parts. The...
Reading the first few pages of The New Atlantis, I was surprised by its effusive piety. God is invoked at every turn,...
I think I may continue, at least from time to time, this practice of book-blogging. I hope no one minds. But even if...
Let me conclude these posts on Winner’s book by looking at its third and last section, “Excess and Limit.”...