6.0468 Qs: Lists; Astronomy; Quotes (5/73)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 1 Feb 1993 12:50:22 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0468. Monday, 1 Feb 1993.


(1) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 11:15:20 GMT (10 lines)
From: JLD1@phx.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Italian List?

(2) Date: 29 Jan 1993 08:30:23 -0500 (EST) (14 lines)
From: AEVANS@DEPAUW.BITNET
Subject: Dear Humanists:

(3) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 10:20:41 EST (14 lines)
From: rkelley@URSINUS.BITNET
Subject: Undergraduate Listservs/Discussion Nodes

(4) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 93 11:38 +0200 (22 lines)
From: <MIZRACHI@HUJIAGRI>
Subject: Neareastern Archaeoastronomy ?

(5) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 15:06:58 -0500 (13 lines)
From: Michael Hawley <mike@whammo.media.mit.edu>
Subject: Plato

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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 11:15:20 GMT
From: JLD1@phx.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Italian List?

Advice please. (1) Is there an Italian discussion list in the UK?
(2) Is there an Italian discussion list anywhere?
(3) If there is *not* such a list in the UK, which UK university would
be prepared to host such a list? Please reply to me directly by email.
Thanks. John Dawson, University of Cambridge Computing Service.
Internet: JLD1@phx.cam.ac.uk Janet: JLD1@uk.ac.cam.phx
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Date: 29 Jan 1993 08:30:23 -0500 (EST)
From: AEVANS@DEPAUW.BITNET
Subject: Dear Humanists:

I need a bit of help: have any of you, in your readings, ever happened upon a
"photo in a dead man's (or woman's) eye"? I have discovered this intriguing
image (no pun intended) in Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "Clair Lenoir" and in
Jules Verne's _Les Freres Kip_, and I am virtually certain that it must have
appeared in other literary works during the latter part of the 19th century or
the early part of the 20th. But I am having very little luck in finding it.
Any suggestions would be immensely welcome.
Art Evans, Dept. of Romance Lang.
DePauw Univ., Greencastle, IN 46135
tele (317)658-4758 e-mail: aevans@depauw.bitnet
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 10:20:41 EST
From: rkelley@URSINUS.BITNET
Subject: Undergraduate Listservs/Discussion Nodes

I am searching for listservs or discussion nodes which emphasize and
encourage participation by undergraduate researchers and artists. We
would like to involve our students in electronic communications, and
want forums which they can share in. I know that I have seen, for example
a group which emphasized undergraduate creative writing, but I cannot
find the reference. Does anyone know of creative/research-oriented
lists friendly to undergraduates?
Rob Kelley
Ursinus College
Ursinus College
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Date: Sat, 30 Jan 93 11:38 +0200
From: <MIZRACHI@HUJIAGRI>
Subject: Neareastern Archaeoastronomy ?

Hi netters,
Prof. Anthony Aveni from Colgate University and I have been conducting for the
past 4 years a study of the Astronomy and the Geometry of a Megalithic monument
in the Golan Heights called Rujm el-Hiri(See Biblical Archaeolgy Review,
July-August 1992). We are looking for references on similar studies from
the Neareast preferably of fourth-second millennium site
(our site is dated to the third millennium BC)...
Also, we are looking for references on Historical and Ethnographical
sources (or work of synthesis) that deal with Neareasten Astronomy - preferably
in traditional/agricultural/phalahin contexts....
Finaly, any intersting sources on Geometrical Alignments (to mountains etc.) wi
be usefull... THANKS
Any help would be appricaited.

Dr. Yonathan Mizrachi
Dept of Anthropology, Harvard University
School for Educational Leadership, Jerusalem, Israel
Mizrachi@HUJIAGRI
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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 93 15:06:58 -0500
From: Michael Hawley <mike@whammo.media.mit.edu>
Subject: Plato

Plato, and I think Socrates (and probably others)
scorned the advent of written media -- the usual
argument was that scrolls would be like a crutch
for the mind (instead of a bicycle?).

Can someone supply a few pithy quotes?

thanks,
Michael