beamjockey: Drawing of Bill of the Heterodyne Boys by Phil Foglio. (Default)
beamjockey ([personal profile] beamjockey) wrote2007-05-20 02:15 pm

The Painted Ponies Go Up and Down

I just mentioned this in a comment to [livejournal.com profile] james_nicoll, but it seems worth noting here.

[livejournal.com profile] apostle_of_eris has just pointed out that a facsimile of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is online.

(I wonder if Owen Gingerich will visit the server where it's housed, looking for notes in the margins of the hard disks?)

[identity profile] bigbumble.livejournal.com 2007-05-22 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
An to think, my high school offered latin and I never took it.

[identity profile] apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com 2007-05-22 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
IIRC, I posted that to the General Tecnics listserv . . .
I can't figure out if this post of Bill's now makes the thread multi-media, or if this is just more Living in the Future. Which, of course, being able to pull up images of the original Copernicus is . . .
Multi-modal? Some neologism I haven't encountered yet?

[identity profile] maiac.livejournal.com 2007-05-30 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Way cool! Dredging up memories of my high-school Latin, I might even understand about every 20th word. And if it were translated into English, I might still understand about every 20th word. But WAY COOL!

[identity profile] charlie-meadows.livejournal.com 2011-07-11 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
"I wonder if Owen Gingerich will visit the server where it's housed..."

Gingerich could probably tell you which copy this is a scan of; he likely has seen and/or handled the physical original...


Bringing this into the current century, I wonder if it will now become "The Book No One Downloaded"...