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vichy waters: borborygmic belches
Taking the waters at Vichy. Where fitness was not the only end in view. The thermal spa at Vichy and its warm springs had a very slow rise to international fame. The patronage of Rabelais and generations of consumptive Britons … Continue reading
ocean view: atlantis drifting
Who got to the New World first? There is a line-up of claimants, from the refugees of Atlantis, to Phoenicians piloting the Children of Israel, to the Egyptians and the Chinese. Or is it none of the above? Is it … Continue reading
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tottering Aristotle: the web spinners
Great examples of the illustration of the new age of science. Francis Bacon’s The Great Instauration followed a century of immense activity in the sciences, after discoveries in astronomy by Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Kepler and galileo; after Gilbert’s experiments with … Continue reading
new atlantis: caves of custom
If one now asks why science arose as it did, it was Francis bacon which spread its doctrines. It is evident that the geographical dicoveries of his time, and the circumnavigation of the earth, had promoted an independent examination of … Continue reading
montaigne’s soul daughters
Michel de Montaigne invented what can be termed the “personal essay” at the dawn of the seventeenth-century. It was seen quickly by Marie de Gournay that Montaigne’s disdain for logic and linear progression was part of a larger attack on … Continue reading
honky chateau
There is nothing like life in a dank chateau to promote, in a growing girl, a taste for literature. …. We grieve for many; not least we grieve for unhappy, solitary maidens so intelligent as to be misfits in ordinary … Continue reading
MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED
The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading
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