On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:03:18 +0100, "Wm..."
 wrote:

>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:42:30  
>uk.net.news.config Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.invalid>
>
>>It's not IMHO.  Just something to watch out for in the future.
>
>We watch each other more carefully than you might think.


Ah yes - the pervert streak yet again.

I see you're now offering Chapman advice on how to bring up his kids.

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:52:53 +0100, "Wm..."
 wrote:

>Nope, I just happened to have met Guy and his son (church project), we 
>are ordinary people, unlike you. If a boy wants to see churches I don't 
>have a problem with that.  London has a number of religious buildings of 
>many faiths and most of them are open to anyone who behaves well.

Peter's looking at the life of Robert Hooke, who designed The
Monument, several City churches for the Wren partnership and developed
the method of construction for the dome of St. Paul's, as well as
surveying London after the fire, laying out many widened streets,
developing the world's first set of building controls, and of course
also founded the science of microscopy, deduced that fossils were
petrified sea animals and plants, invented the anchor escapement and
the universal joint, and was Gresham Professor of Mathematics and
curator of experiments to the Royal Society, of which he was a founder
member and also at some time secretary.  An extremely interesting and
much overlooked character from English history, second only to Newton
in his impact on the history of science (and that only because of the
immense impact of calculus).

We have rare books on Hooke and naturally looked at a few related
landmarks on the way round.  I didn't get to St Edmund King & Martyr
but we did take a picture up the centre of the column of The Monument,
which doubles as a telescope.

I am sure all this is evil and sinister in some way that entirely
escapes me right now.
 
Guy
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On Tue, 22 Sep, Just zis Guy, you know?  wrote:
>  On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:52:53 +0100, "Wm..."
>  wrote:
> 
> >Nope, I just happened to have met Guy and his son (church project), we 
> >are ordinary people, unlike you. If a boy wants to see churches I don't 
> >have a problem with that.  London has a number of religious buildings of 
> >many faiths and most of them are open to anyone who behaves well.
> 
>  Peter's looking at the life of Robert Hooke, who designed The
>  Monument, several City churches for the Wren partnership and developed
>  the method of construction for the dome of St. Paul's, as well as
>  surveying London after the fire, laying out many widened streets,
>  developing the world's first set of building controls, and of course
>  also founded the science of microscopy, deduced that fossils were
>  petrified sea animals and plants, invented the anchor escapement and
>  the universal joint, and was Gresham Professor of Mathematics and
>  curator of experiments to the Royal Society, of which he was a founder
>  member and also at some time secretary.  An extremely interesting and
>  much overlooked character from English history, second only to Newton
>  in his impact on the history of science (and that only because of the
>  immense impact of calculus).

Yeah.  No-one has ever heard of him.  They should make a law about it, 
and teach it in physics.  Maybe we could make it something to do with 
springs.

He also, incidently, published the first solution to the problem of 
optimising the geometry of arches.  Though for some reason, he first 
published it in an appendix to a paper on helioscopes, in latin and 
with the letters shuffled into alphabetical order.

regards,   Ian SMith
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Brendan Halpin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22 2009, Wm... wrote:
> 
>> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:45:03
>>  uk.net.news.config
>> "Just zis Guy, you know?" 
>>
>>> I am sure all this is evil and sinister in some way that entirely
>>> escapes me right now.
>> It will all be in a novel by a man named Brown soon, Dan, dan, dan.
> 
> It's already all in a novel (rather, a trilogy) by Neal Stephenson (the
> "Baroque Cycle"). Great fun, if you like that sort of thing.
> 
> Brendan

And far, far more readable than Dan Browns' drivel.

(But I like Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon anyway)

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Wm... wrote:
> Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:14:59  
> uk.rec.cycling Keitht <KeithT@?.?.invalid>
> 
>> Brendan Halpin wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 22 2009, Wm... wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:45:03
>>>>  uk.net.news.config
>>>> "Just zis Guy, you know?" 
>>>>
>>>>> I am sure all this is evil and sinister in some way that entirely
>>>>> escapes me right now.
>>>> It will all be in a novel by a man named Brown soon, Dan, dan, dan.
>>>  It's already all in a novel (rather, a trilogy) by Neal Stephenson (the
>>> "Baroque Cycle"). Great fun, if you like that sort of thing.
>>>  Brendan
>>
>> And far, far more readable than Dan Browns' drivel.
> 
> Are you admitting to having bought a book by Dan Brown?  This may be a 
> respect issue, K
> 
No, honest guv!
Not bought nor read more than a few pages.
If you get used to Stephensons' writing you can only shake your head in 
dismay at Browns'
Hiro Protagonist is far more interesting than a re-write of Indiana 
Jones. And William Gibson gives us laminated paper bikes with 50,000 
volt anti-theft devices. Demons from hell are ten a penny - Neal Ashers' 
'The Skinner' put the shits up you.

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