Pariah Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 The really cool thing? ABBA does a version of that song in French. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 Heh, I'll be posting some snide comments in the musical superdraft thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 Why be snide? Just accept that ABBA was the pinnacle of pop - life gets so much easier that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 Hey, it isn't ABBA I'm being snide about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 12, 2015 Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 Oh ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2015 Why be snide? Just accept that ABBA was the pinnacle of pop - life gets so much easier that way. nah. #disagree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 https://twitter.com/YoungStationers/status/631666052066332672/photo/1 tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 "There is no 'F' in dipsh*t, but that's the grade you're getting anyway!" Sorry, grading final exams. tkdguy and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 "As Jupiter's moons orbit the extremely massive gas giant, Jupiter is constantly excreting gravitational forces on its moons or small bodies." Ewwww. Pariah and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 Pulling a zero on a question I promised would be on the final is a sign of inattention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 Distraction, maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 Poor attendance record, at least as likely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 "Don't worry -- they never ask questions on appendicitis." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 "And if they do, you can always look up the answer in the appendix." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 No reference material during exams! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 Especially if yours has already been removed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 My lucky pen decoration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 14, 2015 Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 Finished the final exams without losing a red pen. Only 14 in the class, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 Off the top of your head ( some research allowed if you like): what are the 7 most important books published in modern science? Astronomy? Chemistry? (Crossover between science, astronomy & chemistry expected). Trying to get a feel for the major milestones in science, so ask professionals, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 14, 2015 Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 I need to know more of what you mean. Where do you draw the lines for "modern"? And what is "important" in this context? It has been a long time since a book in the sense of a monograph has been pivotal to the things thought by practitioners in physics or astronomy. Individual papers are more the thing, for the last 125 years or more. I suspect, but do not know for sure, the same is true about other disciplines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 For modern I'm thinking that the benchmark is Newton, but acknowledge that there are some who you might call the "founding fathers" before him. I'm thinking of people like Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus. Other major people I'm thinking of are Michael Faraday & James Clerk Maxwell. I'm also thinking of limiting this list to 1899 so basically exclude Einstein and his era. My objective is to basically say: if one were to read the major works of these people would that give the person a basic grasp of "modern" science? Of the people I've mentioned in this post, who have i missed that one would need to read (assuming that one can understand the original books) to understand that science discipline (chemistry, astronomy, physics) and science in general. I'm thinking of trying to limit it to seven to ten books (or people and listing the major books by that person, e.g. Newton wrote Principia and Optics). Addendum: Oh I left out Boyle, Pariah will be so mad at me. Also another useful topic-heading could be "Pre-Netwon" that is the major monographs of modern science before Newton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 Rephrasing the question: Assuming that a person wants to self-educate themselves with modern science (after-Aristotle), what is the minimum number of books that one would need to read, i.e. the absolute essentials up until 1900. Categories/disciplines (potential useful) General science - Pre-Newton General science - After-Newton Physics Chemistry Astronomy (A lot of this is my librarian nature trying to systematise modern science to its highlights & essentials.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 14, 2015 Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 Put that first cut at 1550 AD rather than "pre-Newton". The Copernicus/Tycho/Kepler/Galileo compendium of work is closer to Newton's science, but as much as a century before his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 What books/monographs etc would you suggest to cover "Copernicus/Tycho/Kepler/Galileo"? I can find Copernicus' book (yes still in print). On Tycho I'm not familiar with as far as him publishing anything. Kepler wrote a few I remember. Also did Galileo publish anything? Addendum: Galileo Galilei did. Wow. Obvious yes of course, but we don't hear about it much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted August 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Okay working my way through my homework by Cancer (which is odd when you think about it, cancer giving you homework ) Galileo Galilei considered his "Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences" as is "most important work" so if I was going to read on of his, I'd go ahead and read that one. Okay draft list of most important works in the Scientific Renaissance era Andreas Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica (De humani corporis fabrica libri septem) 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres 1543 Johannes Kepler - Astronomia nova 1609 Johannes Kepler - Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae 1615 Johannes Kepler - Harmonices Mundi (The Harmony of the World) 1619-1621 Francis Bacon - Novum Organum (Novum Organum Scientiarum) 1620 Galileo Galilei - Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 1632 René Descartes - Discourse on the Method 1637 Robert Boyle - The Sceptical Chymist 1661 Issac Newton - Method of Fluxions 1671 Gottfried Leibniz - Nova Methodus pro Maximis et Minimis 1684 Issac Newton - Principia (Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica) 1687 Issac Newton - Opticks 1704 Any significant others that i missed? I came across Christiaan Huygens & Blaise Pascal but unsure how they would fit in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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