MDDM Ch. 22 Notes (2)

[Dave Monroe]

Again, thanks for persisting here, let's see if I can
follow in yr footsteps here, at least for a while ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> 222.19 "*De Litteraria Expeditione et Soforthia*" ?
> A facetious reference to a journal of one of
> Boscovich's and Maire's surveying expeditions?
> Perhaps that one recounting "the march from Rome to
> Rimini"? (222.25)

De litteraria expeditione per Pontificam ditionem
(1755) "and so forth."  In the meantime, on Ruggiero
Giuseppe (Roger Joseph) Boscovich, S.J. ...

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Boscovich.html

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/References/Boscovich.html

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02691a.htm

http://www.dalmazia.it/dalmazia/personaggi/ruggeroen.htm

And last but hardly least ...

http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/scientists/boscovich.htm

Check out the links at that last one, which is also
the source for ...

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/boscovich.html

"Provided by Doug Millison."  And note as well ...

Homo hominem arreptum a Tellure, et ubicumque exigua
impulsum vi vel une etiam oris flatu impetitum, ab
hominum omnium commercio in infinitum expelleret,
nunquam per totam aeternitatem rediturum.

"Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by
a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond
recall for all eternity."

Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis (1758)

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Quotations/Boscovich.html

So, okay, some M&D content for today, at least ...

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