chaos theory for lay people? [was MDMD(4) p.123 small re-write]

[Paul Murphy]

>Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:17:02 -0400
>From: Sojourner <sojourner at vt.edu>
>Subject: Re: chaos theory for lay people? [was MDMD(4) p.123 small  re-write]
>
>At 06:30 PM 7/31/97 +0200, Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
>
>
>>"He believes that bread is alive,- that the yeast Animalcula may unite in a
>>single purposeful individual

Sojourner quotes:

>Er war einer der ersten, denen bewuþt war, daþ
>die Kr”tze und die Cholera von kleinen Tierchen - in der Sprache der
>Zeit  ->>--"ANIMALCULA" -<<-- ¸bertragen werden.

"He was one of the first to know that scabies and cholera was communicated
by little animals -- in the language of the time, animalcula" (roughly).
The reference is clearly to an 18th-century theory of microbiological
organisms.

Cheers,
Paul