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Ancient Loons - Stories Pingree Told Me (Paperback)
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Ancient Loons - Stories Pingree Told Me (Paperback)
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"Ah, I'm Pingree. We meet again. Splendid. Won't you sit down?" I
looked around David's room. Short of the library stacks, I had
never seen so many books piled into a single room. Where could I
sit down? Every square inch of horizontal surface was covered.
Books, papers, notes, manuscripts-all congregated in random and
chaotic disorder. This small encounter and the snapshot of the
protagonist on the cover of this book introduce the reader to David
E. Pingree, the eminent classicist, Orientalist, historian of
ancient science, and member of the Department of the History of
Mathematics at Brown University. This is a book of his stories,
retold by Phil Davis, award-winning author and raconteur par
excellence, who reconstructs them from letters and many
conversations with his friend Pingree. The stories trace
connections between ancient characters, historical and mythical,
and recreate a world in which the pursuit of knowledge for its own
sake leads to unexpected pleasures and associations. They capture a
world best described by Saul Lieberman's quip about Gershom
Scholem's great work on the Kabala: "Trash is trash; but the study
of trash is scholarship," and David Pingree's imagined response,
"Yes, but there's always something of value to be learned." The
book is dedicated to preserving and promoting the specialized
knowledge and thoughts of David Pingree, a truly remarkable person
and to inspire readers to follow academic tradition and at the same
time explore unusual connections.
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