Thank you for responding to Richard's request.
I apologise to any list member who feels I have wasted their time.
.....is it really a crime so terrible that I am to forfeit womanhood?
Ms Meenal Gupta, Special Projects Officer
British Association for the Advancement of Science
23 Savile Row, London W1X 2NB
Tel : 0171 973 3069 Fax : 0171 973 3051
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask] [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 5:54 PM
> To: Meenal Gupta
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: FW: [big-chat] Early Medieval Science
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>
> Dear Mr Gupta,
>
>
> It does not seem to me to be a very good idea to pass on such extremely
> elementary questions as the one about Bede. Mr Glassborow should look in
> a
> book, in a library. You could have told him so yourself.
>
> In any case, he seems to be making money out of his enterprise and is
> trying to get his research done on the cheap.
>
> I append a copy of my reply to his query.
>
>
> JVF
>
>
> >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:46:58 +0000
> >To:Richard Glassborow [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> >From:[log in to unmask] (J. V. Field)
> >Subject:Elementary astronomy enquiry
> >
> >
> >Dear Mr Glassborow,
> >
> >
> > You do not say which books you have tried.
> >
> > You ought to be able to find out something about Bede in books that
> >deal with the history of medieval astronomy. An authoritative recent
> >source (with bibliography is Olaf Pedersen 'European astronomy in the
> >Middle Ages', in C. Walker (ed.), _Astronomy before the Telescope_,
> >London: British Museum Press, 1996, 175 - 186. [ISBN 0-7141-1746-3]
> >Reprint 1999. This article contains some references to Bede.
> >
> >
> > Yours sincerely,
> >
> > J. V. Field
>
>
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