I am introducing a new section to The Well-read Naturalist with the title “More Things” in honor of the famous quote from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet;” a play and a sentiment both of which I very much admire.
More Things
Upon Reflection
“Upon Reflection” is a collection of short personal essays, observational notes, and related items; largely this publication’s editorial comment section.
A Few Late Night Thoughts Reading Lowell Baier’s New Codex
What Mr. Baier offers in this book is not only the facts of the Act and its history but perhaps just if not even more importantly a reminder that as a nation we were once better than we are now, that we aspired to noble goals and by working together could achieve them.
Edwin Hubble Present and Past
Prior to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope that has recently delivered to us so many awe-inspiring images of the universe, it was the Hubble Space Telescope, named for astronomer Edwin Hubble and launched in 1990, that set the standard for what we could see from a space-based observational platform. Indeed, both technological developments that went into the creation of, as well as of course images from, Hubble continue to provide new information not only to astronomers and astrophysicists but to a wide range of scientists around the world.
The Past and Future of Common Knowledge
In which I fall to musing upon the amount of information an average reader of Charles Dickens’ novels would have been expected to possess in his own time and how it compares to that which could be assumed of us today.
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