I found something interesting today from ECCO — a French grammar book that uses a sample dialogue about alchemy to teach grammar. In the dialogue, the alchemist is a friend of the conversants who has “run mad on chymistry.” Finally a useful French textbook! Much better than “Jacques donne de l’argent a la vendeuse” or [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Alchemists and grammar
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ewww — Old People!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of course, I’m speaking relatively. Even though much of my work goes back to the seventeenth century — Newton was, after all, born in 1642 — when I find myself reading older writers, it’s sometimes rather painful. I just finished Jonson’s The Alchemist as research for this chapter and, even though I find it wonderful, I [...]
Some thoughts on media
Posted in Uncategorized on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m tracking the different English editions of Algarotti’s Newtonianismo per le Dame for my SHARP presentation in Oxford this June, and I’m feeling ambivalent about both rare books and online sources.
ECCO is so daft to work with sometimes, but at least I could scribble on printed pages that way. At the huntington, on the other [...]
