According to Winchester, Volume IV, Part I of Needham’s oubliette magnifique describes the Chinese etymological circumstances surrounding the vastness of Chinese words for oranges. Really, how British. How Sapir–Whorf hypothetic of him to lay out the importance of verbogensis and cultural importance of a concept or concrete item. It is here that fascinated Needham. In [...]
Ok, I’m through the first hundred pages, and I feel hooked with the desire to follow this story or these people or something. So we start with this person of recognition named Joseph Noel Needham. His life is of extraordinary character; including his blessed British stock of privilege and society. And for some reason I tend to [...]
His soul, overflowing with rapture, yearned for freedom, space, openness. The vaults of heaven, full of soft shining stars, stretched vast and fathomless above him. The Milky Way ran in two pale streams from the zenith to the horizon. The fresh, motionless still night enfolded the earth. The towers and golden dome of the cathedral [...]
Location is a simple word in English. It has moved into our public contemporary tongue from Latin’s nominative declension of locus, which is just an old noun that means place. But location now carries more than just a point in Euclidean description. It is more than some anonymous point floating along any number of axes. [...]