#educational reading

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Dex threw Mosscap a look and lowered their voice as far as it would go. "What kind of books does Ms. Amelia collect?" "Oh, entirely pornography," Mosscap said. "It was very educational."

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, by Becky Chambers

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Happy #WisdomWednesday! The book for this week is Monarchy by Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri is one of the most important and influential names in all of European literature, but it was only after his exile from his native Florence at age 37 (1302) that he set out to write his more ambitious works. One of them, De Monarchia, is believed to have been written around the year of 1313. In this work the great Italian poet turns his hand to political thought and defends the reign of a single monarch ruling over a universal empire. He believed that peace was only achievable when a single monarch replaced divisive and squabbling princes and kings. However, he also believed in a separation of powers in that the Emperor has jurisdiction over temporal matters, whilst the Pope administered over things spiritual.

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Sometimes called the founder of modern chemistry, the Seventeenth-century natural philosopher Robert Boyle is credited with transforming chemistry from an occult discipline to a modern science in which theory and practical experiment support and advance each other. Influenced by Bacon and Descartes, Boyle formulated his empirically based “corpuscular” theory of the constitution of matter, which freed chemistry from the then accepted notion of elements – “whether the earth, air, fire, and water of the Aristotelians; the salt, sulfur, and mercury of the Paracelsans; [or] the phlegm, oil, spirit, acid and alkali of later chemists.”

Boyle’s corpuscular philosophy was first published in 1661 in Certain Physiological Essays and later that year in the first edition of The Sceptical Chymist.  The second edition of the latter (1680), upon which this Classics of Science facsimile is based, contains nearly twice the material as the first edition and includes Boyle’s law (volume varies inversely with pressure), originally stated in 1662.

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