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Reading Diary: Galileo by J.L. Heilbron
Posted by John Dupuis on March 14, 2011
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Here’s a hint. Never, ever, ever put the following sentence in any non-fiction book you are writing: This is dull stuff. (p. 165) Testify! An object lesson on non-success for popular science books to compare and contrast with an object lesson for success in popular science books. But, to be fair, the book under consideration…
The American Astronomical Society responds to “Scholarly Societies: Why Bother?”
Posted by John Dupuis on April 15, 2010 A month or so ago I posted on Scholarly Societies: Why Bother?, basically on the challenges that scholarly societies face in the digital age. I got a few good comments, getting a nice discussion going. I also posed a few questions directly to scholarly societies but unfortunately didn’t get any comments from any of the…
