JF Ptak Science Books Post 100 [See also my latest post on fat: Fat Redux, 1920's Fat Quack Cures]. In the world of found-book-objects, few I think are as deeply removed and as deeply obscure as the ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1248 Yes, the heavens are made of circles, somewhat, especially if you were observing a three-dimensional figure in two-space, where all spheres are circles. But here we're ...

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 781 Blog Bookstore Nels Quevli, the Mason City, Iowa author of the oddly-titled What Should be Done with the Bodies of the Dead (1936), does indeed have a point that ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post This fantastic timeline of the U.S. Civil War (History of the Civil War in the United States, 1860-1865) was compiled by J. Kellick Bathurst, drawn by Edward Perrin, ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2532. I was thinking about the opening line from Dicken's Tale of Two Cities, yesterday, one of the author's great books, and probably one of his greatest sentences, ...

In a developing thread on oddly-represented alphabets on this blog, this one is a little harder to fill than it seems. The rules are that all images must be some level of dissection (with the ...

JF Ptak Science Books. I think that it is difficult to overstate the importance and long-term significance of Dr. Seuss' (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991, son and grandson of brewmasters) contribution ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Part of the History of Lines series Hermann Plauson, a German engineer and director Fischer-Tropsch Otto Traun Research Laboratories of Hamburg, Germany (in the 1920's ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1676 ”[Smoking is] a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest ...

Honestly, I can't quite grasp your complaint. I feel that rural life is the best life, and that cities are a blight upon the planet. Then again, I was born in a small town, raised in a small town, and ...

At first glance this detailed and dense map looks foreboding and somehow off-putting--at least for me, and that was before I understood what the numbers represented. The blue numbers on this section ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1807 Part of the series The History of Blank, Empty and Missing Things Lewis Carroll created a lovely, simple cipher in the midst of his Alice and Snark and Logic and Sylvie ...