From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 14:44:35 MDT
"Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com> Wrote:
> The previous century really ended in 1715, just as
> the 18th century itself really ended in 1815, and
> the 19th in 1914. Because in 1715 one sun was
> replaced by another. The outgoing sun, Sun King
> Louis XIV, Le Etat c'est Moi, absolute ruler of
> 25 million of the most advanced citizens of Earth's
> richest country, died that year, and our good old
> global-warmer itself, our real sun, came back from
> its Maunder Minimum.
Kings and solar cycles are trivial stuff compared with what happened in
1687, in that year Sir Isaac Newton an obnoxious unfriendly man but probably
the greatest genius the human race has so far managed to produce published
"Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica". The next milestone you could
claim for Homo Sapiens was in 1800 right on the dot because that's when
Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery making it far easy for anyone
to experiment with electricity and magnetism. The next milestone could be
claimed for 1900, also on the dot because that's when Plank discovered the
quantum.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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