Over the past 8 years I've accumulated a lot of stuff on the history of science, and after seeing @raffleshitposting 's fantastic bibliography on Raffles, I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring and give it a go as well!
This biblio took about 2, 3 weeks to complete. In order to keep the project manageable, I've kept certain sections sparse for now, and I hope to add on to them in the future.
Happy to discuss recommendations / suggestions for improvement in the comments below, or through DMs.
Found Poetry from Thomas Young's Sparkling Language
Raw material: The Bakerian Lecture, Experiments and Calculations relative to Physical Optics, 1803. It’s really Colours, not Colors in this case!
I am picking a single line from the first page of this historical article, two lines from each other page. No editing and rearranging allowed! Let your subconsciousness speak by selecting snippets of text!
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on the fringes of colours
to reflect the sun’s light
plunge it more deeply into the shadow
for want of a sufficient intensity
to receive the angle of the shadow on its extremity
the light always remains white
being supposed to correspond to a double interval
of the hair
of the object
of the wire
of disappearance
Hence we are warranted in inferring
If we imagined the shadow of the wire
each kind of light disappears and reappears
to point immediately to a similarity in the causes
it approaches to its axis
reflected from the posterior surface
according to the difference of time occupied in the passage
such supernumerary colours are not often seen
two arches of reddish purple, and two of green
two things which well deserve to be taken notice of
encompassing the observer’s shadow in a mist
to refrain at least from idle declamation
extinguishing the light
in this chain of reasoning
as the wind passes through a grove of trees
impress us with an idea of a complication
when viewed through a prism
there are strong reasons for believing
extend beyond the violet
I threw this image on paper
not sufficiently great
sufficient to complete
the analogy
~
Originally published on my Wordpress blog - this version has also digital artworks of mine:
I am turning Thomas Young’s sparkling language into poetry! Raw material: The Bakerian Lecture, Experiments and Calculations relative to Phy
Thomas Young, a brilliant British polymath, is known as ‘The Last Man Who Knew Everything.’ Some of his contributions include discovering the wave theory of light, describing elasticity, inventing the tuning method of musical instruments, studying the vocabulary of over 400 languages, explaining the capillary phenomenon, interpreting Egyptian hieroglyphics on Rosetta Stone, and so much more.
One of the largest unions in the United States is the Service Employees International Union. An important battle to build the 175,000 member strong SEIU Local 32BJ was a 1934 strike. Its spark was the firing of Black elevator operator Thomas Young, an immigrant worker from the Caribbean.
