Laudator Temporis Acti

"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).

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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

De Liberis Educandis

Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968), quoted by Abraham Pais in A Tale of Two Continents: A Physicist's Life in a Turbulent World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 205: