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eppur_se_muova

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5. Second that ! If I had chosen to go into that field, I would probably never retire. As it was, my fascination for the ..

Reply to erronis (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 24, 2026, 06:30 PM

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... physical sciences and mathematics took me in an entirely different direction, and not necessarily one that worked out all that well.

John Dee is not an individual I can remember having heard much about. Minus the supernatural stuff, he sounds interesting. Need to go do some wiki reading.

And any day now, I'm going to find a good bio treatment of John Wallis, who seems to have played a very crucial role in European mathematics at one time.

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