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Monsieur Maupertuis | |||
enjoyed a tour of England | |||
brought back some Newton. | |||
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Revision as of 16:23, 15 November 2009
Written for STS 3301.
- A disclaimer
These haiku are forced. But everything is forces, there is no free will.
- On Max Planck
Suffering upright, revolution unasked for, walk a middle plank.
To the theorists, blessed are the peacemakers and the go-betweens.
- Planck, from Einstein's perspective
A splendid fellow, careful incrementalist, imperialist.
- On writing about Peter Galison
In which the author finds himself critical of an opalescence.
- On the American who went to Europe
Augustus Rowland Elite grating on our nerves very precisely.
- On Bernoulli's disciple
Monsieur Maupertuis enjoyed a tour of England brought back some Newton.
