JONATHAN SWIFTS ACADEMY OF LAGADO ON THE ISLAND OF LAPUTA: 1) ok so i have almost run out of my librarys shelf of audio books 2) people w british accents sound smart 3) i am now listening to/reading swifts gullivers travels, read by a guy with a great british accent 4) it is good! and entertaining, and could have been written yesterday 5) is this amusing to you? imagine hearing it in a sophisticated british accent. about one research project being undertaken at the academy of lagado The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour. He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governors gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate… 6) here is a short, contextualizing discussion of the academys work The Academy of Lagado and the usefulness of science – Early Modern Experimental Philosophy,... blogs.otago.ac.nz In our recent book exhibition Experimental Philosophy: Old and New, there is a cabinet on literature, where we show how the experimental philosophy was depicted in the works of the...
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