Tag: bookblogging

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| March 17, 2011

The Information (2)

In the early pages of The Information, Gleick writes a good deal about communication: African talking drums, for...

| March 14, 2011

The Information (1)

As I understand it, the principal virtue of popular science writing — indeed writing for a general audience about any...

| February 17, 2011

about bookblogging

Here’s the funny thing about bookblogging: I tend to feel that it’s okay to blog my way through older...

| February 10, 2011

The New Atlantis (4)

The third section of The New Atlantis concerns the narrator’s interview with the Father of Salomon’s House,...

| February 7, 2011

The New Atlantis (3)

As I mentioned in an earlier post, Bacon’s unfinished The New Atlantis falls quite naturally into three parts. The...

| February 3, 2011

The New Atlantis (2)

Reading the first few pages of The New Atlantis, I was surprised by its effusive piety. God is invoked at every turn,...

| February 1, 2011

Bacon and the New Atlantis

I think I may continue, at least from time to time, this practice of book-blogging. I hope no one minds. But even if...