In his radical anti-change days, Dodgson opposed the addition of a degree in Natural Science which should confer the same privileges as the M.A. degree. Cohen,...
Jim, as I see it Dodgson was not against science he was against change at Ch.Ch. Despite that fact that he was not that good at Greek and Latin he wanted these...
J not sure this is the place to discuss such things but to be blunt you are wrong. Any object in a gravitational field falls at the same rate and for bulky...
You have much the save view that I do. I was hoping that someone would have more to offer as support for Charles being favorably enthusiastic about the...
Common sense has been described as "Those things that don't make me think, and that confirm how smart I already way." The ordinary observation of a feather...
... I'm currently working on a paper in which I suggest that perhaps Carroll found the sciences psychologically uncomfortable, and avoided them because he...
Hi, I must confess that I am surprised to read that Lewis Carroll might have been anti-scientist. More surprising is that you quote from fictional works to...
... Well, if you have any non-fiction references then that might be better; it is certainly true that Carroll disavows the opinions of his characters in the...
... Perhaps rather he could already sense the narrowing trap into which a certain kind of 'science' was leading us all; how it would develop from being a...
Karoline
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Karoline, Dodgson was not alone in this feeling that understanding science could shake his faith in religion. However, in general every age thinks it has...
... a certain kind of 'science' was leading us all; how it would develop from being a 'culture of doubt' to being instead a tool of denial and a means of...
Does any one have copies or scans of original Silvi and Bruno (and Concluded) and Symbolic Logic covers that they'd be good enough to email to my address? I'd ...
Hey, My copy isn't original but it does have the illustrations by Harry Furniss if thats any help to you? BRYAN TALBOT <bryan.talbot@...> wrote:Does...
... Hi Victoria, Yes, that would be great. If you can send me, say 3 of the best illustrations in 2MB jpegs? (over 3 emails?) Many thanks. My copy is without...
I now have scans of the cover and some interior illustrations from Sylvi and Bruno, thanks to the kind efforts of Alise G. If there is anyone who can send me a...
Dear Peter, Yes, I'm sure you know that so many groups of the 60's, some 70's too, were so "Alice" related. In my theater production "Alice in the Shadows" we...
One of the LENNON websites is called John Lennon's Dream or something and its linked to one of my Yahoo ones.There is a mass of info on here ... Dear Peter, ...
Is the meaning of this chapter that 'one can't turn back the clock'? Time is stopped at 6, and, although the Hatter imagines it springing 4 l/2 hours forward...
Can anybody help me out by emailing to my address a 3 0r 4 MB jpeg of the cover to Symbolic Logic to me? Old Joe Soap, who was kindly going to send me one,...
can you explain to me how the solar calander is two days out of sinc with the lunar calandar when the clock stops? we have a leap year every four years right?...
Has anybody compiled a list of biblical and historical sources that might have been referred to by CLD in his Alice books - if there are any? Reason I ask is,...
well the game of chess is in shakespeare (the tempest i believe) and also the War of the Roses, big time is in loads of shakespeare history plays (Henry 4,5,...
I did - have - but it is still not completed. The list is huge, and very relevant to understanding CLD's works and thoughts. You want to know more, email me...
