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May 31, 2021 Book of the Week — Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

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A vivid belt of blue lightning flashed down through the blackness, and for a moment every outline of cliff and forest forms, and the rushing clouds of snow and sleet, were lighted up with a cold, pallid gleam. …In the moment of lightning I saw...

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...