How critical should critical be? (Corpus Part Three)
I am polishing two papers connected to Louis de Beausobre, whose correspondence is the third of the four corpora we will edit first (at least part of it). As good an occasion as any other to post on...
View ArticleNovember, 30th 1763 from Comedy Central in Berlin
(this post is a follow-up to this one and that one.) I spent the whole day on Letter 16 from von Buch to Beausobre. There were several long interruptions, but still. I am not done. And I should be...
View ArticleBerlin + around 1800 + ???
I was invited – together with a hundred other elected guests – to an inofficial birthday party at the Academy of Sciences yesterday. As chance would have it, the presentation of the project “Berliner...
View ArticleThat’s what I call Digital Intellectuals!
The Berlin Academy of Sciences just launched a digital edition of the minutes of the work sessions that were held there between 1746 and 1786. You can consult it here: it is awesome. Not just because...
View ArticleAnother way of looking at it
In the paper I will be giving at the Academy of Sciences on March 15th (the program of the conference can be found here), I will present the three parts of our Boeckh project (as I had done on this...
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