[Nordskogen] a bookish idea

[dan at irontreeworks.com]

I like this idea!!

I am reading a non fiction book called, "The book Nobody Read:  Chasing the
Revolutionibus of Nicolaus Copernicus" by Owen Gingerich.

Apparrently no ever read the original manuscript "De revolutionibus".  It went
through so much editing by the publisher/printer that much of book was changed
or altered.  The author was attempting to view all 600 copies of the book known
to exist including those owned and annotated by Kepler and Galilieo in an
attempt to recreate some of the original mathamatics/etc......I am not done yet

Who wants to host this?  Sounds like nerd heaven!!!

Danr



Quoting Elizabeth Pearce <e.a.pearce at gmail.com>:

> Greetings All,
>
> When I moved out of Olaf in May, I looked at the piles (and piles!) of my
> class books and thought how great it was going to be to finally have time to
> read what I want. Only now I am starting to really miss reading books and
> talking about them. So I got this idea: I think it would be really cool to
> have a group of people that would read a book about a topic in medieval
> history and then meet once a monthish to talk about the book. I imagine the
> topics we pick will vary quite a bit - one month maybe a book about daily
> life in the time of Charlemange, the next month a book about the Fourth
> Crusade. If this sounds like something you would perhaps like to do, please
> email me so I can see if there is enough interest. Then I can see what day
> works the best for everyone. Even if your schedule is insanely busy and
> might explode if you add one more thing, email me anyway. Maybe I'll set up
> an LJ community or something like that so part of the discussion can be
> online.
>
> Alternatively, if this is already going on, please tell me so I can get
> involved.
>
> I'll be at the meeting tonight if anyone wants to talk with me about this
> idea in person. I'll be a little late though.
>
> Yay books!
> Elizabeth de Percy
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