On the evening of August 13, I left Manchester and arrived late in Edinburgh during the fringe festival – a nearly obscene event schedule of dance, theater, comedy, music, and film. The streets were packed with viewers moving between venues and cafés and bars (they do this all day for three weeks?!?). My room was just a few blocks away…
Tag: incunabula
Heart warming visit to Goettingen. Edition 14 accepted.
I did way too much Friday. But most notably I learned about Goettingen University and their holdings from the endearing Helmut Rohfling. How a simple facsimile of the first ever math book that also displays geometry figures can make me cry, is bewildering. But I was overcome by gratitude. Yes. Someone had to make the first mark. Euclid had to…