Mersenne Digest Thursday, April 22 2004 Volume 01 : Number 1108
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:20:34 -0700 From: "Paul Leyland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Mersenne: Huxley quote and Merton publication Try TH Huxley, "Man's Place in Nature". I suspect the species name you actually require is "Eohippus", Greek for "Dawn Horse". Can't help on the second, sorry. Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Simon Olling Rebsdorf > Sent: 13 April 2004 13:33 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mersenne: Huxley quote and Merton publication > > Dear all, > > This is my first Mersenne-request, and there are two of them: > > 1. If anyone of you happends to know about the origin of the > following quote > from Huxley (which of the prominent Huxleys is unknown), I > would be most > grateful if you would let me know (it is a translation from a > Danish quote > of Huxley): > > What compensation has Echippus (The Primeval horse) got from > her sufferings > coming from the fact that her predecessors, millions of years > later, win a > Derby race? > > 2. Do anyone know of a publication by someone named Merton > (evidently not > Robert K. Merton but probably an astronomer) in which > Gaussian methods were > modified for determinations of orbits? The publication is > dated 1925, but > sadly that's all I know. > > Best regards, and thank you in advance! > > Simon O. Rebsdorf, MSc, PhD Student, History of Science > Department, Aarhus, > Denmark. > www.ivh.au.dk. > > ______________________________________________________________ > ___________ > Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm > Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers > _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:30:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Gordon Irlam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mersenne: End of list FYI. I intend to end this list shortly. When it was established some 10 years ago, other venues for discussing these issues did not exist, and could not easily be created. Now other venues and mailing lists exist. The cost to me of maintaining this list are two fold: - the need to maintain a server connected to the Internet (higher connection costs; difficulty moving from house to house; and need to worry about system reliability and uptime) - time taken upgrading my system (need to upgrade from majordomo to mailman; and costs of maintaining the configuration from one upgrade to the next) Since alternatives exist, I am not making very much of a difference by hosting these lists, and I am doing so at significant cost. Hence my decision to end the list. I will allow discussion of alternative lists people may wish to join before closing this list. thanks, gordon (list admin) _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers ------------------------------ End of Mersenne Digest V1 #1108 *******************************
