T plus 8 days & counting...

[pedropadrao]

I tried on Sunday to catch up to the news, & as a result reached my endurance limits. I also discovered why I've got those awesome painkillers, now that I'm at home: My sleep habits have improved. I can truly rest now, & that makes Elizabeth very happy, as you can imagine

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[cjtremlett]

The weighty tomes issue is part of why my mom got an e-reader. She prefers reading large print these days (she can still read small print, but it's a strain over time) and with her Parkinson's issues, handling the physical size of large print books is difficult. So she got an e-reader and can set the font size to whatever feels comfortable at the time and it's light weight and easy to manage.

Though you'll be back to being able to wrangle weighty tomes soon, I trust!

[pedropadrao]

Depending on the actual mass of the tome, probably in another five weeks or so. You might find one of said tomes to be of interest, too: A History of Japanese Astronomy: Chinese Background and Western Impact. I've owned it for a while, but it's under a pile of other books, mostly the ones I'm using for this spring's show on Brahe, so the burial situation should be easy to reverse sooner or later.

[cjtremlett]

Oooh, awesome! Both the Japanese astronomy book and doing a show on Brahe!

[pedropadrao]

I've had a soft spot for the noseless Dane since I picked up astronomy as a hobby, which is going back into the Eighties. He had no patience with the overly complex mathematics that had plagued astronomy before him, & I had an arrogant ass teaching me math. The story of Tycho & Christina's common-law marriage is one of the few stories of smash the barriers true love in an age that didn't consider such relationships as licit.

I actually found the Japanese book at about the same time, but bought it a few years ago. As you know, Chinese & Japanese ideas about the universe before Western science drove them from the field were simple & elegant.