"To the natural philosopher there is no natural object unimportant or trifling…a soap bubble…an apple…a pebble…He walks in the midst of wonders." John Herschel, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1830)
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Assignment for Thursday, Jan. 26
In Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, read to the top of p. 13. (Stop when you finish the sentence "Was that what women hummed at luncheon parties before the war?") While reading, anticipate counterarguments to the points Woolf develops.