Should academic disciplines have both a purpose and a finish date?
Academics need to think harder about the purpose of their disciplines and whether some of those should come to an end
Source: aeon.co
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One single book: Parshat Haazinu
From the blog of David Sedley at The Times of Israel
Source: timesofisrael.com
From aardvark to zygote: my lament for the lost world of encyclopaedias
These great bodies of scholarship evoke our changing times like nothing else
Source: telegraph.co.uk
An old Encyclopaedia Britannica is a work to cherish
It may have been eclipsed as reference material, but it’s still a valuable indication of the general knowledge of past generations
Source: spectator.co.uk
A Chart of North and South America, including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest Coasts of Europe, Africa, and Asia.: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
Antique Maps of South and North America. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of North America, South America & the Western Hemisphere from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Source: geographicus.com