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WEBJF Ptak Science Books Quick Post I think that this is the first time I've seen E=mc^2 incorrectly written in the same journal article. It occurs in a filler article in a 1950 slug filler piece in the New York Times (sorry I do not have the exact date/page) reporting on a church near Cologne incising its bell with the world's most famous equation but getting it wrong.
Dr. Seuss and the 236 Words that Changed Reading Forever
WEBJF Ptak Science Books. I think that it is difficult to overstate the importance and long-term significance of Dr. Seuss' (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991, son and grandson of brewmasters) contribution to childhood. I think that it is impossible to calculate the overall impact of his bringing young people to the joy of reading, and to the familiarization with the bare mechanics of how to read.
An Alphabet of the Opening Lines of Charles Dickens' Works
WEBJF Ptak Science Books Post 2532. I was thinking about the opening line from Dicken's Tale of Two Cities, yesterday, one of the author's great books, and probably one of his greatest sentences, period.This longish, single-sentence opener is 115 words long and punctuated with 16 commas, most of which are in the first half of the sentence, and all of which seem to work together like a piece of music.
JF Ptak Science Books // Blog Bookstore
WEBRare, scarce, interesting, and unusual books for sale, mostly in the history of physics, math, and technology. The bookstore site is part of a larger daily blog for the History of Holes, Dots, Lines, Science, History, Math, the Unintentional Absurd & Nothing |1.8 million words, 7000 images, 4.6 million hits, and 4600+ posts over 11 years| Press & appearances in The Times, Mensa, Le Figaro, The ...
Estimating Casualties in the Invasion of Japan, July/August 1945
WEBIn other words, we shall probably have to kill at least 5 to 10 million Japanese. This might cost us between 1.7 and 4 million casualties including [between] 400,000 and 800,000 killed." “W. B. Shockley to Edward L. Bowles, 21 July 1945, "Proposal for Increasing the Scope of Casualties Studies," Edward L. Bowles Papers, box 34, Library of ...
Roadtown, Linear Cities, and Living in a Line: Edgar Chambless …
WEBJF Ptak Science Books Post 855 I wonder what our human world would be like if we had evolved living in horizontal linear cities? The idea had never occurred to me before seeing the work of Edgar Chambless, whose Roadtown (the entire 172pp of the 1910 work located here) projected the idea of super long linear road-cities. Actually it was the illustrations that attracted me more than Chambless ...
JF Ptak Science Books: Writing Systems
WEBJF Ptak Science Books Post 1166. Working on the next installment of cosmological images [and also a continuation of the series on writing systems] I put together a series on naming the stars, ideas providing the mechanics for naming the celestial kingdom, applying an alphabet for relative discussions of the heavens. The most provocative of them all, I think, belonged to Guillaume Postel (1510 ...
Posters - longstreet.typepad.com
WEBNov 20, 2014 · Posters Fine Reproductions of Unusual and Rare Cover Art. This blog is a part of JF Ptak Science Books on the History of Holes, Dots, Lines, Science, History, Math, the Unintentional Absurd & Nothing |1.6 million words, 7000 images, 3.5 million hits| Press & appearances in The Times, The Paris Review, Le Figaro, The Economist, The Guardian, Discovery News, Slate, Le Monde, Scientific American ...
JF Ptak Science Books: World War I Photography
WEBJF Ptak Science Books This is a photograph of an aid station somewhere along the Western Front, 1917. Given the amount of digging going on throughout the course of the war, with the construction of hundreds of thousands of miles of trenches, and then the sapper war to tunnel underneath the tunnels and so on, it is quite possible that this underground shelter was dug out by hand.
JF Ptak Science Books: Birds and Human Flight
WEBJF Ptak Science Books Overall Post 5154 For thousands of years the most popular fuel of the common idea for humans to achieve flight was through the application of bird flight mechanics. (The other common vehicle employed balloons of one...