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1. Author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Uniform title: Novum organum
Title: Bacon's Novum organum / edited with introduction, notes,
etc. by Thomas Fowler.
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1878. 1889 2nd Ed is better!
Description: xvi, 619, 36, [6] p. ; 23 cm. see below
Series: Clarendon press series
Notes: Includes bibliographies: (p. 142-151).
Language: Latin
Subjects: Science--Methodology--Early works to 1800
Induction (Logic)--Early works to 1800
In 1889 Fowler published a 2nd edition of the Latin version of
Novum Organum.
(The date makes it easy to confuse this with the English translation
of the same date, as did the original librarian.)
The only difference is extended and revised notes by Fowler.
They are long and tedious but we've got to check them.
So if we get a volunteer for the Latin version,
this 2nd edition is the one to use.
2. Author: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
Title: Bacon's Novum organum; 2d ed.
Publisher: Oxford, The Clarendon press, 1889.
Description: xxii p., 1 l., 629 p. 23 cm.
Language: English
[We may have this one, so ask before you leap]
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Comments About Our Improved Files
Please keep sending in those error messages, nothing is
more fun for me than a quick jump into our files to make
improvements. . .eventually we will have editions that
will surpass the finest paper editions in the world.
Index Listings for Improved Files are listed below new ones this month.
Comments About Our New Files
Oh. . .so many files this month. . .of all kinds!!!
We start of with "The Washington Square Plays,"
some of which are of great current interest:
see "Eugenically Speaking."
Our German Team has once again outdone themselves,
and presented us with a whole new collection to read.
Andrew Lang's edition of Homer's Iliad!
More Thomas Hardy.
A new translation of the Bible.
More Plutarch, more Richard Harding Davis, more Sabatini.
More Faust, more Charlotte Perkins Gilman, more Aristophanes.
More to read in Bulgarian.
More Anthony Trollope and Charlotte M. Yonge.
And more Tom Swift and Thomas Jefferson.
And, of course, our first "Top 40" musical presentation!
I got tired just WRITING this list. . .you should have a
full holiday season downloading these and giving them to
all your friends!!!
Index Listings for the New Files
Feb 2002 The Golden Slipper, by Anna Katharine Green [gslprxxx.xxx]3071
20
Feb 2002 The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle [bskrvxxa.xxx]3070
[Please note this is a separate version, 10a, from our previous bskrv10 book]
[If any of you would be willing to compare these file for is, let me know.mh]
Feb 2002 The Great Boer War, by Arthur Conan Doyle[Doyle26][gboerxxx.xxx]3069
Feb 2002 Washington Square Plays, Various [wsplaxxx.xxx]3068
[Includes:
1. The Clod . . . . . By Lewis Beach
2. Eugenically Speaking . By Edward Goodman
3. Overtones . . . . . By Alice Gerstenberg
4. Helena's Husband . . . By Philip Moeller]
Feb 2002 Hard Cash, Charles Reade [Reade #5][hardcxxx.xxx]3067
Feb 2002 The Red Man's Continent, Ellsworth Huntington [redmaxxx.xxx]3066
[Full title: The Red Man's Continent, A Chronicle of Aboriginal America]
Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #8, Theodor Mommsen (German) [1mommxxx.xxx]3065
Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #5, Theodor Mommsen (German) [1mommxxx.xxx]3064
Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #4, Theodor Mommsen (German) [1mommxxx.xxx]3063
Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #3, Theodor Mommsen (German) [1mommxxx.xxx]3062
Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #2, Theodor Mommsen (German) [1mommxxx.xxx]3061
Feb 2002 Roemische Geschichte #1, Theodor Mommsen (German) [1mommxxx.xxx]3060
[Translation: Roman History. We have books 1-5 and 8.]
[These are published as .htm, .txt, and .utf (unicode), but .htm and .utf
are only in .zip files]
Feb 2002 The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang [iliabxxx.xxx]3059
Feb 2002 A Changed Man and Other Tales, Thomas Hardy [#17][chgmnxxx.xxx]3058
Feb 2002 The Common Edition: New Testament, Trans. Clontz [comedxxx.xxx]3057C
[Translator: Timothy E. Clontz. This is a translation of the Bible.
Published as a set of doc files (comed10d.zip) and text files (comed10.zip)]
Feb 2002 Wessex Tales, Thomas Hardy [#16][westlxxx.xxx]3056
Feb 2002 Wood Beyond the World, William Morris [#7][wbydwxxx.xxx]3055
Feb 2002 Volcanic Islands, by Charles Darwin [Darwin #16][vlcisxxx.xxx]3054
[Note: This was previously reserved as #2997, but 2997 was a duplicate]
Feb 2002 Signs of Change, William Morris [#6][sgnchxxx.xxx]3053
Feb 2002 Works Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies, Plutarch [plutaxxx.xxx]3052
[Full title: The Complete Works Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies]
Feb 2002 An Open-Eyed Conspiracy, William Dean Howells [#7][opneyxxx.xxx]3051
Jan 2002 Notes of a War Correspondent, R. H. Davis [#32][ntwrcxxx.xxx]3050
Jan 2002 A Group of Noble Dames, Thomas Hardy [#15][nbldmxxx.xxx]3049
Jan 2002 The Little Duke, Charlotte M. Yonge [#6][ltdukxxx.xxx]3048
Jan 2002 Life's Little Ironies etc., Thomas Hardy [#14][lfirnxxx.xxx]3047
Jan 2002 The Land of the Changing Sun, William N. Harben [lcsunxxx.xxx]3046
Jan 2002 Last Chronicle of Barset, Anthony Trollope [#9][lacobxxx.xxx]3045
Jan 2002 Desperate Remedies, Thomas Hardy [#13][desrmxxx.xxx]3044
Jan 2002 The Quaker Colonies, Sydney G. Fisher [quakexxx.xxx]3043
Jan 2002 Hispanic Nations of the New World, Wm. R. Shepherd[hispnxxx.xxx]3042
Jan 2002 The Cleveland Era, Henry Jones Ford [clevexxx.xxx]3041
[Full title: The Cleveland Era, A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics]
Jan 2002 The Boss and the Machine, Samuel P. Orth [bossmxxx.xxx]3040
Jan 2002 Forty-Two Poems by James Elroy Flecker [42pomxxx.xxx]3039
Jan 2002 The Armies of Labor, Samuel P. Orth [laborxxx.xxx]3038
Jan 2002 The Age of Big Business, Burton J. Hendrick [agebbxxx.xxx]3037
Jan 2002 The Railroad Builders, John Moody [rroadxxx.xxx]3036
Jan 2002 The Day of the Confederacy, Nathaniel Stephenson [daycoxxx.xxx]3035
Jan 2002 The Anti-Slavery Crusade, Jesse Macy [ascruxxx.xxx]3034
Jan 2002 The Passing of the Frontier, Emerson Hough [passfxxx.xxx]3033
Jan 2002 The Fathers of the Constitution, Max Farrand [fathcxxx.xxx]3032
Jan 2002 Wild Animals I Have Known, E. T. Seton [Seton #3][wldamxxx.xxx]3031
Jan 2002 The Tavern Knight, Rafael Sabatini [Sabatini #10][tavrnxxx.xxx]3030
Jan 2002 Real Soldiers of Fortune, Richard H. Davis [#31][resofxxx.xxx]3029
Jan 2002 The Peterkin Papers, Lucretia P. Hale [petpaxxx.xxx]3028
Jan 2002 The Orange Fairy Book, Andrew Lang [Lang #29][orangxxx.xxx]3027
Jan 2002 North of Boston, by Robert Frost [Frost #2][nobosxxx.xxx]3026
Jan 2002 A Mountain Europa, by John Fox, Jr. [Fox #6][europxxx.xxx]3025
Jan 2002 The Last Stetson, by John Fox, Jr. [Fox #5][lasttxxx.xxx]3024
Jan 2002 Faust Part 1, Johann W. Von Goethe [Goethe #32][faustxxx.xxx]3023
Jan 2002 A Cumberland Vendetta, by John Fox Jr. [Fox #4][cnvenxxx.xxx]3022
Jan 2002 A Boy's Will, Robert Frost [Frost #1][boyswxxx.xxx]3021
Jan 2002 Table-Talk, William Hazlitt [Hazlitt #2][tablexxx.xxx]3020
Jan 2002 Pointed Roofs (Pilgrimage 1), Dorothy Richardson [pointxxx.xxx]3019
Jan 2002 [Reserved] [ xxx.xxx]3018
Jan 2002 The Forerunner, Volume 1, Charlotte P. Gilman [#5][forerxxx.xxx]3017
Jan 2002 What Diantha Did, Charlotte Perkins Gilman [#4][diantxxx.xxx]3016
Jan 2002 Our Androcentric Culture, Charlotte P. Gilman [#3][androxxx.xxx]3015
Jan 2002 The Old Northwest, Frederic Austin Ogg [oldnoxxx.xxx]3014
[Full title: The Old Northwest, A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond]
Jan 2002 The Birds, Aristophanes [Aristophanes #4][birdsxxx.xxx]3013
Jan 2002 The Acharnians, Aristophanes [Aristophanes #3][acharxxx.xxx]3012
Jan 2002 The Lady of the Lake, Sir Walter Scott [llakexxx.xxx]3011
Jan 2002 Olaf van Geldern, Pencho Slaveykov [Bulgarian][olafgxxx.xxx]3010*
Jan 2002 Truth and the Myths, by A.R. Narayanan [truthxxx.xxx]3009C
Jan 2002 The New Hacker's Dictionary, by various editors [jarg422x.xxx]3008
[A previous version was posted as etext #817, Also posted as HTML]
Jan 2002 The Smoky God, by Willis George Emerson [smokyxxx.xxx]3007
Jan 2002 Stalky & Co., by Rudyard Kipling [Kipling #20] [stlkyxxx.xxx]3006
Jan 2002 Tom Swift and His Airship, by Victor Appleton [03tomxxx.xxx]3005
Jan 2002 Jefferson and his Colleagues, by Allen Johnson [jandcxxx.xxx]3004
[Full Title: Jefferson and his Colleagues, A Chronicle of the Virginia]
Jan 2002 Wild Flowers, by Neltje Blanchan [wldflxxx.xxx]3003
Jan 2002 Nature's Garden, by Neltje Blanchan [wldflxxx.xxx]3003
[Was published under both titles]
Jan 2002 Society's Child, by Janis Ian [Audio files] [sochixxx.xxx]3002C
[Four separate files:
sochi_high.mp3 MP3 file, no degradation
sochi_med.mp3 MP3 file, slightly reduced sound quality
sochi12.wav WAV file at 22kHz
sochi11.wav WAV file at 11kHz]
Jan 2002 Society's Child, by Janis Ian (Lyrics) [sochixxx.xxx]3001C
[Please note that this is a new recording, made for Project Gutenberg]
[The original hit was on the Top 40 for two months during the "Summer
of Love" in 1967]
And here are some sets we reserved slots for earlier, which are now complete:
Reminder. . .these are in the directory for 2001, the above are from 2002.
Dec 2001 Mark Twain, A Biography, Complete, by Albert Paine[mt6bgxxx.xxx]2988
[This file contains the entire six volume series as indexed below]
Dec 2001 Mark Twain, A Biography 1907-1910, by Albert Paine[mt6bgxxx.xxx]2987
Dec 2001 Mark Twain, A Biography 1900-1907, by Albert Paine[mt5bgxxx.xxx]2986
Dec 2001 Mark Twain, A Biography 1886-1900, by Albert Paine[mt4bgxxx.xxx]2985
Dec 2001 Mark Twain, A Biography 1875-1886, by Albert Paine[mt3bgxxx.xxx]2984
Dec 2001 Mark Twain, A Biography 1866-1875, by Albert Paine[mt2bgxxx.xxx]2983
Dec 2001 Mark Twain, A Biography 1835-1866, by Albert Paine[mt1bgxxx.xxx]2982
Dec 2001 The Middle Class Gentleman, by Moliere[Moliere #3][mgentxxx.xxx]2992
[Translated by Philip Dwight Jones, also available as mgent10h.htm]
We are now completing our series by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt with these:
Dec 2001 Milan, by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt [JC#20][jcmilxxx.xxx]2970
Dec 2001 Back Again to Paris, by Jacques Casanova [JC#19][jcbprxxx.xxx]2969
Dec 2001 With Voltaire, by Jacques Casanova [JC#15][jcvltxxx.xxx]2965
Dec 2001 Switzerland, by Jacques Casanova [JC#14][jcswtxxx.xxx]2964
Dec 2001 Holland and Germany, by Jacques Casanova [JC#13][jchgrxxx.xxx]2963
Dec 2001 Return to Paris, by Jacques Casanova [JC#12][jcrprxxx.xxx]2962
Dec 2001 Return to Holland, by Jacques Casanova [JC#11][jcphlxxx.xxx]2961
Dec 2001 Under the Leads, by Jacques Casanova [JC#10][jculdxxx.xxx]2960
Dec 2001 The False Nun, by Jacques Casanova [JC#9][jcflnxxx.xxx]2959
Dec 2001 Convent Affairs, by Jacques Casanova [JC#8][jcconxxx.xxx]2958
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The following etexts were updated:
Nov 2000 The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot [marboxxx.xxx]2401
marbo10r.zip and marbo10.zip include 7 bitmapped images. The 10r is
an RTF file.
Jun 1994 A Child's Garden of Verses, R. L. Stevenson [#3][childxxx.xxx] 136
[Version 11 released with corrections]
Jul 1994 A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett[#3] [lprss10x.xxx] 146
[Version 11 released with corrections]
Oct 1996 The King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin [tkogrxxx.xxx] 701
[Version 11 released with corrections]
Jan 1998 A Strange Disappearance, by Anna Katharine Green [sdsprxxx.xxx]1167
[Version 11 released with corrections]
May 1998 The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman[samboxxx.xxx]1330
[Version 11 released with corrections]
Sep 1998 Heidi, by Johanna Spyri [The Popular Kid's Story][heidixxx.xxx]1448
[Version 11 released with corrections]
The filename for the following was changed, and version 11 was posted.
Oct 2000 Tartarin de Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet [trtraxxx.xxx]2375
(was previously 'trtrn', which is the same filename as #1862. These are
separate translations of the same book, so should get different etext #'s
and filenames)
Apr 1995 French Cave Paintings [10X Older Dead Sea Scrolls][cavepxxx.xxx] 249
[cavep11h.zip was added. This is an HTML version of the cave paintings]
Filename adjusted: Was mistakenly posted as 3alomb10.htm; now it's 3lomb10.htm
Dec 2001 A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs V3 by Proust[3lombxxx.xxx]3000
For all of 2998, 2999 and 3000, added .txt versions (only .htm were available)
Dec 2001 A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs V3 by Proust[3lombxxx.xxx]3000
Dec 2001 A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs V2 by Proust[2lombxxx.xxx]2999
Dec 2001 A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs V1 by Proust[1lombxxx.xxx]2998
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Notes from News Scan and Edupage
GLOBAL CHIP SALES HEADED FOR RECORD $200-BILLION
Global chip sales grew 40% in October and are on their way to a record $200
billion for 2000, according to a report by the Semiconductor Industry
Association. The SIA's monthly Global Sales Report tallied October sales at
$18.6 billion, up from $13.4 billion for the same period last year, with
demand driven by consumer electronics, and wired and wireless
communications markets in addition to the PC sector. The largest growth was
in Japan, which increased 47%, followed by the Americas with 41%, the
Asia/Pacific market at 35%, and Europe increasing 33%. This year's glowing
report has a downside, however -- analysts predict that future growth in
chip sales will be more moderate as it will be difficult to significantly
exceed this year's robust sales activity. (Financial Times 5 Dec 2000)
http://news.ft.com/news/industries/infotechnology
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EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A TERABYTE!!!
. . .and a gigabyte of RAM and a gigahertz of CPU chip. . .
AND ALL FOR UNDER $10,000
ANNOUNCING THE TGG SPECIFICATION FOR TERABYTE COMPUTERS
These specifications are to provide a continuous scale
for measuring system performance in the new millennium.
As you know, it specs get pretty ridiculous after just
a few iterations of Moore's Law. . .every PC sold this
year will have Norton's SI ratings in the hundreds, or
even thousands, and gigahertz Landmark Speed ratings--
ratings which are far beyond the measurements programs
like this were originally meant to make. . . .
So, we are proud to announce a specification that will
ride the tides of time, giving the current prices such
systems should cost at any given date, along with what
current performance should be expected from that price
point in the future.
For example:
The 1.0 TGG rating is given to this kind of system:
Date: January 1, 2000
Cost: $10,000
Disk: 1.0 Terabytes
RAM: 1.0 Gigabytes
CPU: 1.0 Gigahertz
In 18 months this system as it is listed would have
fallen to a rating of .5, since the cost would be
twice as much as it then should be.
To maintain the 1.0 TGG rating after one period of the
Moore's Law [18 months] the system would have to be:
Date: July 1, 2001
Cost: $5,000
Disk: 1.0 Terabytes
RAM: 1.0 Gigabytes
CPU: 1.0 Gigahertz
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Date: July 1, 2001
Cost: $10,000
Disk: 1.26 Terabytes
RAM: 1.26 Gigabytes
CPU: 1.26 Gigahertz
which would yield a TGG rating of 2.0 on January 1, 2000,
but would have dropped to a rating of 1.0 on July 1, 2001
One more iteration should get the point across:
Date: January 1, 2003
Cost: $2,500
Disk: 1.0 Terabytes
RAM: 1.0 Gigabytes
CPU: 1.0 Gigahertz
or
Date: January 1, 2003
Cost: $10,000
Disk: 1.6 Terabytes
RAM: 1.6 Gigabytes
CPU: 1.6 Gigahertz
which would yield a TGG rating of 4.0 on January 1, 2000,
but would have dropped to a rating of 1.0 on January 1, 2003
We will work up a table for the first 10 iterations.
The Pentium 4 will run at these speeds, and I should have
one this week, but not the one you should buy, this one
takes BusRAM, which is FAR too expensive. Do any of you
know where I can get some at reasonable prices???!!!???!!!
We are using the initials TGG for this rating system,
which currently have the following two expansions:
The Terabyte Gigabyte Gigahertz Rating System
The Gutenberg Goal Rating System
CONFIDENTIAL: Please give me your suggestions/comments
(C) 2000 by Michael S. Hart
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My personal observations of the current state of the computer revolution:
I have reported every year on how saturated the US and the world are with
computers and with Internet accounts and yet people still find it strange
that we have passed the midpoint in computer saturation in the US, and in
US Internet accounts.
In one month it is likely that there will be twice as many US households
WITH computers as WITHOUT, it is possible this is already true given the
delays in this information reaching the public.
If we divide the US into Early, Middle, and Late households, then we are
now in the process of getting those "Late Adopters" into computers if we
divide the households into equal thirds, which most statisticians refuse
to do, as it would lessen the mystification powers of their statistics.
In the same vein, if we divide US Internet accounts into Early and Late,
we are now filling in the Late Adopters, as there are now 135 million of
these Internet accounts in the US alone, which is about half the numbers
indicated by preliminary reports of the 2000 census.
So in response to those I hear touting themselves as "Internet Pioneers"
as these have only recently announced their new presence on the Internet
. . .I can only say that with half the country there ahead of you, it is
just not possible for you to be in the first half any more. . . .
I won't go into this further other than to say that there have been some
interesting conversations on some listservers in response to some of the
newbies touting themselves as Internet Pioneers. . .and we muleskinners,
such as we are, have decided to light a fire and brand them as settlers.
hee hee
Now for the hard part. . . . As I predicted last year, there was a nice
big shakeout of many of these dotcom Internet Pioneers this year as only
could have been predicted by the fact that you just can't sell the large
number of computers to an audience that is 2/3 saturated as you can to a
similar audience that is 1/3 saturated. . .we have passed the midzone of
the "S" curve. . .and we will never pass that way again.
So, of course those who didn't really know what they were doing dropping
out of the telegenepool is the most obvious thing to happen.
However, this only means that the strongest have survived, and you don't
need to worry as much about them dropping out next year. . . .
Of course, some of us may not agree that the megazilliondollar takeovers
are the best way to "settle" cyberspace. . .and we are fighting back.
hee hee
***
I bought a Sound Blaster AWE 64 GOLD,
and would like a copy of the disk[s]
that come with it. Can't load the
one that came with mine. And I need
drivers for it.
I am also need drivers for these:
Matrox Millennium II video card
SoundBlaster Model CT4170
[This one will be hard to find,
you may need to ask someone at
Creative Audio.
Thanks so much!!! Michael
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