In article <106gtf633mqlt5e@corp.supernews.com>, "Marvin Margoshes" <physnospamchem@cloud9.net> wrote:
"Bruce Sinclair" <bruce.sinclair@NOSPAMagresearch.NOTco.NOTnz> wrote in
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The discussion is on a group of math and physical science newsgroups. If
I
were teaching freshman alchemy ...
Indeed :) ... but the point is still valid. Sometimes old books really
are useful ... even if only for history papers ... and I assume that,
somewhere, someone teaches a history of science paper ? :)
Several national libraries are putting old books online in digitized form.
A few years ago, I donated a rare early French book on spectroscopy to a
library, then found I could download it from the Bibliothèque Nationale de
France.
These would be valuable resources for teaching, but they aren't in
themselves textbooks.
Your point, while picky, is still well made :)
Bruce
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It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to
think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone´s fault.
If it was Us, what did that make Me ? After all, I´m one of Us. I must be.
I´ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks
of themselves as one of Them. We´re always one of Us. It´s Them that do
the bad things. <=> Terry Pratchett. Jingo.
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