I was gifted: "Beyond Measure, The Hidden History of Measurement from cubits to Quantum Constants", by James Vincent.
(Shame on Caltrans for abandoning the Metric System! Shame on the FEDs for not putting us entirely on the metric system!)
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Re: Book: Beyond Measure
Book update: RE: Reason
How apropos - wisdom for our present politics from a wise Frenchman from the 1700s:
From the wisdom of an economist, mathematician, philosopher, one time a monarchist, then a republican and finally a democrat - Marquis de Condorcet:“The time will therefore come when the sun shines only on free human beings who recognize no other master but their reason; when tyrants and slaves, priests and their benighted or hypocritical minions exist only in the history books and the theatre, and our only concern with them is to pity their victims and their dupes, maintain a useful vigilance motivated by horror at their excesses, and know how to recognize and stifle, by the weight of reason, the first seeds of superstition and tyranny that ever dare to appear”{/i]
(BEYOND MEASURE, by James Vincent)
How apropos - wisdom for our present politics from a wise Frenchman from the 1700s:
From the wisdom of an economist, mathematician, philosopher, one time a monarchist, then a republican and finally a democrat - Marquis de Condorcet:“The time will therefore come when the sun shines only on free human beings who recognize no other master but their reason; when tyrants and slaves, priests and their benighted or hypocritical minions exist only in the history books and the theatre, and our only concern with them is to pity their victims and their dupes, maintain a useful vigilance motivated by horror at their excesses, and know how to recognize and stifle, by the weight of reason, the first seeds of superstition and tyranny that ever dare to appear”{/i]
(BEYOND MEASURE, by James Vincent)