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The long couple arguments are so annoying. At this point, skip till the dragons or griffens

I will be reading this till the day I die. Can only stomach so much. Then find a kitten sleeping in a sunbeam. Smell fresh mowed grass. The history of man is cruelty. Thank God the future is female.

Hard to get through. I will perpetually reading this because it takes me weeks to calm down.

83% of women with disabilities will be sexually assaulted in their lives.

Look at 10 people in a room, 8 of them sexually assaulted.
https://disabilityjustice.org/sexual-...

Time for something fun! Already with the one liners I love from Gilbert.... "How many more books does a person need to read in order to show that she can read a book?"

It's better when it's garcia's voice not west.

It's becoming an irritation that the author keeps describing women as "wife of..sister of..aunt of.."
Did we really need this phrase inserted?

In 1794, Elizabeth Fulhame-wife of Dr. Thomas Fulhame, an Irish-born resident of Edinburgh who had studied with the famous chemist Joseph Black-had published a pamphlet titled "An essay on combustion, with a view to new art of dying and painting,"

"Those who impose a totalitarian regime argue in the same breath about their love for their country, their faith in its destiny and their hope for ‘peace, progress and bread’. But they hate an adversary who gets in their way, who detracts from their own glory. Authoritarian by nature, they detest opposition and will not accept censure or criticism"

"...the man of science was not supposed to be like the ant, piling up facts like crumbs, but like the bee, who takes specks of pollen, digests them, and turns them into honey."

Another argument that we are in the Dark Ages 2.0. "Many political economists of the day argued that riches were a sign of God's favor, and God Himself had ordained that there be poverty, so that people would have incentive to work hard".

I effing love this.
"countering Atheism, Pascal argued that even though the existence of God cannot be proved by philosophical argument it is still the most rational course to act (or bet) that God does exist because -if you are right you have everything to gain and if you are wrong you have little to lose." "It is not surprising that one of his main philosophical tenants was expressed in terms of a gamble"

"Experiments &c on Various Subjects, viz. Optical Chemical & Nonsensical, and Queer things miscellaneously arranged for the benefit of posterity." John Herschel titled his notebook such.
You can almost see the obligatory Motorhead sticker.

Bacon "listed all cases of objects that were hot but lacking the property of heat".." concluded that heat was a kind of motion of imperceptible particles" I have to know how he got to this before the days of understanding molecules.

The demotion of the great Caroline Herschel to two lines, "helping with observations" and John Herschel's most loved aunt is disgusting. It would have taken just one more sentence to tell the whole truth. Shame on you, Snyder.

Taught by Mr. Gough who Wordsworth made famous by writing lines in a poem The Excursion.
I've had some good teachers before but never written poetry about them.

Whewell was the son of a carpenter and apprenticed in the trade. More over he was excellent in it. A reverend Joseph Rowley, local curate and grammar school headmaster who hired him to fix a fence, had a conversation with him and knew he of "superior abilities". He convinced his family and paid for his studies. One person *can* change the world. And not with a weapon or a loud voice but with quiet acts of charity.

A fair amount of preparation was needed to read this. While I know what the Enlightenment period was, it was helpful to go back and review. I needed to envision the time, the environment, the people, and the mode of communication to get a feel.
It's difficult *not* to parallel with our current times. Sapere aude.

An initial search of the four men that this book discusses, they essentially amount to "four old math guys". Not something in my comfort zone. Cliche says I "start this endeavor with some trepidation". My only goal is to finish the book. Let's see if the goal evolves.