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Feb 25, 2018 Book of the Week — De Magnete magneticisqve corporibvs et de magna magnete tellure; Physiologia noua, plurimus & orgumentis, & …

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“Non ex libris solum, sed ex rebus ipsis scientiam quaeritis.” Gvilielmi gilberti colcestrensis, medici londinensis, de magnete magneticisqve corporibvs, et de magno magnete tellure; phsiologia noua, plurimis & argumentis, & experimentis demonstrata William Gilbert (1540-1603) Londini: excvdebat P. Short, 1600 First edition QC751 G44 1600 This the only published work of...

Feb 16, 2018 Book of the Week — Lectures of Experimental Philosophy

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“And that we may not be decieved by false Notions which we have embraced without Examining, or that we have received upon the Authority of others; we ought to call in Question all such things as have an Appearance of Falshood, that by a new...

Nov 20, 2017 A Donation Highlights Jewish Contributions to Commerce in Early America

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Dr. Ronald Rubin has donated four issues of early American newspapers highlighting Jewish contributions to commerce. The Pennsylvania Packet, Philadelphia, October 9, 1781, features an advertisement by Haym Salomon, broker, considered the Financier of the American Revolution. In the news that day, a report on the war...

Oct 09, 2017 On Jon’s Desk: Pictures of an Inland Sea – Every Book a Treasure

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“Across the distance there comes a change. The horizon is melted away; the mountains are all blurred. Distant chains appear to part and to become peaked islands. The sky seems water; the water, sky. Soon substance and shadow are indistinguishable. In plainer words, it is...

Oct 02, 2017 Book of the Week — A Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publicane

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“See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands And justifies himself with lifted hands Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.” A Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publicane… John Bunyan (1628-1688) London: Printed for Jo. Harris, at the Harrow, over against the...

Jan 17, 2017 Book of the week — Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral…

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“Still, wond’rous youth! each noble path pursue, On deathless glories fix thine ardent view: Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire To aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!” — from “To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works” POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL… Phillis...

Jan 05, 2017 We recommend — Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail

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“For aren’t we all on a journey that tries our faith, tests our courage, makes us vulnerable, and at times defeats us and blisters our soul?” — Laura Allred Hurtado Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail Laura Allred Hurtado and Byron C. Andreasen Salt Lake City,...

Dec 21, 2016 On this day, 1798 Independent Chronicle

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“In every country whatever, he who violates a woman is a monster.” The Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser Nathaniel Willis, publisher Boston, MA: Powars and Willis, 1776 v. 30: no. 1852 (1798: Dec. 17-20) AN2 A2 I49 Miscellany —————– For The Chronicle To the virtuous Females in the United States “In every country whatever, he...

Nov 21, 2016 Book of the Week — Life on the Mississippi

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“Look at me! I’m the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam’d by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother’s side! Look at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar’l of...

Nov 07, 2016 Book of the Week — Petri Gassendi Institutio Astronomica…

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“…senseless atoms, playing and toying up and down, without any care or thought, and from eternity trying all manner of tricks, conclusions and experiments, were at length (they know not how) taught, and by the necessity of things themselves, as it were, driven…so that though...

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Feb 25, 2018 Book of the Week — De Magnete magneticisqve corporibvs et de magna magnete tellure; Physiologia noua, plurimus & orgumentis, & …

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Oct 02, 2017 Book of the Week — A Discourse upon the Pharisee and the Publicane

Jan 17, 2017 Book of the week — Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral…

Jan 05, 2017 We recommend — Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail

Dec 21, 2016 On this day, 1798 Independent Chronicle

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