Word: principia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...giant library watching a library assistant update the stacks. As she walked through with a bucket, she picked up volumes, glanced at them for a moment, and then threw them away. Russell was particularily alarmed when she tossed out the last remaining copy of his Principia Mathematica, a brilliant work on mathematics and logic...
Garisto stumbled across the blunder while puzzling over some confusing numbers from Newton's 1687 masterpiece of physics, the Principia. Newton had derived a figure for the earth's mass based on his new theory that a single force -- gravity -- governed falling bodies on earth and the motion of planets around the sun. The calculation depended on the angle between two lines from the earth to the sun, but because the angle was not precisely known at the time, Newton used slightly different figures as he revised the Principia. Although he had settled on 10.5 sec., or about three-thousandths...
...think that's allowed. "I object! Corpus Jurus Secundum! No ex post facto! The counsellor is leading the witness! Habeus Corpus! Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica! I'm hungry! Where's my money...
These two acts make up Principia Scriptoriae, a passionate, enlightened and altogether admirable play by Richard Nelson. Now being performed off-Broadway, it has been accorded a rare honor for an American play: Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company will produce it in London this fall. The cumbersome title is a punning Latinate reference to the rules for sound literary construction and the morals that artists ought to live by. Yet Nelson focuses on two characters who are not artists, merely intelligent men. The narrative is less concerned with the fate of the poet than with their enduring misunderstanding and mistrust...
...particularly hard this spring were Boston University and Principia College in Elsah III, where 128 students came down with the virus, three of whom died from the disease