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Relics of Science History For Sale At Christie's
circletimessquare writes "Dennis Overbye at the New York Times has some ruminations on some of the historical totems of science going up for auction at Christie's next week. There is the 1543 copy of 'De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium' by Copernicus, which you can have for $900,000 to $1.2 million. If you have some cash left over, maybe you can pick up an original work by Galileo, Darwin, Descartes, Newton, Freud, Kepler, Tycho Brahe, or Malthus. And then there is the 1878 copy of the world's first phone book: 'a shock of recognition — that people were already talking on the phone a year before Einstein was born. In fact, just two years later Einstein's father went into the nascent business himself. Einstein grew up among the rudiments of phones and other electrical devices like magnets and coils, from which he drew part of the inspiration for relativity. It would not be until 1897, after people had already made fortunes exploiting electricity, that the English scientist J. J. Thomson discovered what it actually was ...'"
Why not? Seemed to work out alright for The Beatles.My work here is dung.
Hey now, cocaine has given us lots of great things... Lindsey Lohan, Stephen King, Robert Loius Stevenson. Do you really think that Jules Verne would have made it around the world in 80 days with out a little bump now and then? Come now people, don't knock Freud because of his cocaine habits, knock him because he made you remember that weird night when you were four when you walked in on your parents.
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No way! Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity flying his kite, with a key attached...
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If that is still too high, I have 2 DEC RA50 disk packs I can sell you. Talk about scientific history!
That cross belongs in a museum!
Nopper nose? Nat's not as nool nas yu nink.
Don't forget he lived on an Island, which also housed his lab. Heck, if he turns out also to have had a white fluffy cat......
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' - D. Adams
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Tycho Brahe was also a member of the Priori de Scion which helped keep the documents from the Knights Templar from the hands of the Church, preventing their destruction.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
We learn about the geniuses and a few of the classic blunders
Never get involved with a land war in Asia?
Too bad it was before the days of frickin' laser beams.
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Rick James, bitch!
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