![]() Please include it here or on your main site!!!īut wait, there’s more. Let me know if this topic would interest you, and if I should include it here.ĭan, this is definitely interesting. ![]() ![]() I’m not sure if that should occur in this space or elsewhere, although the thought of launching another outlet fills me with dread. ![]() I would like to find some way to blog or newsletter about the process we will go through over the next few years, and to think aloud about the (re)design and (future) function of the library. We are beginning a renovation of our main library at Northeastern University, Snell Library, and have been talking with architects (some of them very well-known), and I’ve found the discussions utterly invigorating. I’m curious what training in rhetoric/memory methods Descartes must have had? My immediate thought is that this deck of cards was meant as a memory palace. Via the Beinecke Library, from which you can download the entire deck.) Moxon at the Atlas in Warwick Lane, London. (King of Clubs from The use of the geometrical playing-cards, as also A discourse of the mechanick powers. René Descartes designed a deck of playing cards that also functioned as flash cards to learn geometry and mechanics. ![]() Want to follow me via Email, Newsletter, Social Media, RSS, or Push Notification? View all subscription methods here. ![]()
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