2008/5/19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>Dave Crossland wrote:
To be clear, Edward Cherlin wrote this part: >>> It will have other effects that we do not know about yet. >>> Gutenberg had no thought of supporting the Renaissance, the >>> Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, or anything else that followed >>> from printing. He wanted to print Bibles and other books that had been >>> written by hand before, in expensive editions for those who were >>> already buying books, mostly in the Church. Nobody knew that Aldus >>> Manutius, Martin Luther, and Galileo Galilei were coming, or any of >>> the others, nor what convulsions their productions would inspire. >>> > > Nope. The French King that authorize Diderot to publish the Encyclopedia > ... In the end The King authorize Diderot's Encyclopedia Very cool piece of history! Thanks for sharing :-) >>> I would like to see their textbooks and have a community critique of them. >> >> I'd be interested to hear if the textbooks are made by the Peruvian >> ministry, or by a private company. If its a private company, I expect >> that getting them published online for this kind of analysis will be >> hopeless :-( > > textbooks are written according to the instructions of the Ministry of > Education. Printed by the > goverment and delivered by the goverment (that is for public schools, > private schools need to > follow the curricula but they write and print its own books). Edward didn't mean the textbooks used in schools, he meant the textbooks used in Teachers Colleges. And I apologies that I wasn't precise - I meant to say: I'd be interested to hear if the copyright for the textbooks' text and images are held by the Peruvian ministry, or by a private company. If its a private company, I expect that getting the text and images published online for analysis will be impossible. http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/ is a suitable tool for this. If it is the Ministry, I hope they can publish the books on the OLPC wiki :-) -- Regards, Dave I support www.gnuherds.org - democratic free software jobs _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
