Robert Davidson wrote:
>
> I think it's fair enough that it is expected by Milton that everyone who
> claims basic education should know the basics of Darwin's biography.  After
> all, it can very reasonably be claimed that he is one of the three or four
> most important figures of this rapidly ending millennium.

By *whose* criteria?  Not mine.  I'll place
Elizabeth Eisenstein way above Darwin, any day.
Heck, I'd place far more than 10 of the authors in my
dissertation bibliography above Darwin.

    http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/bibliography.html

Let's start with Donald Winnicott if we're interested in
what being human means from a developmental perspective....
If one needs a second Englishman, how about David Hume, who was
both a very important philosopher and who also lived
admirably even through his painful dying and death.

>
> How fortunate it is to live in a country sensible enough to name a city
> after him.

Who?  Giovanni de Dondi?  Which country?

>
> Robert Davidson
>
> Brad wrote in part:
> But there is another implication here: that *everyone* should
> know the basics of Darwin's biography.
>
> Does everyone here know
> about Giovanni de Dondi's great technological accomplishment ca. 1375?
> There is also apparently a book somewhere about a remarkable
> Hellenistic period astronomical clock that may even have
> exceeded de Dondi's accomplishment -- only ca. 1500 years earlier.
> Since everyone should know everything, I will appreciate the
> citations for this item which someone once told me
> about and which I was so foolish as to not write it down.

I'm still awaiting to be filled in on *this* item of
universal knowledge -- I remedied my Darwin biography
problem from "EA" (Encyclopedia Americana).

+\brad mccormick

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