VMs: Bertrand Russell Believed Newbold

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	I have long enjoyed Bertrand Russell's *Wisdom of the 
West*, a very readable popular history of Western philosophy.

	Russell, Bertrand; *Wisdom of the West: a historical survey 
of Western Philosophy in its social and political setting*; 
(London, Rathbone Books, Ltd., Crescent Books, Inc., 1959.) 
Editor Paul Foulkes.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0517690411/qid=1123906054/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-9843476-8567207

	The book has illustrations, often abstract, in all the 
margins.  I was just looking at the section on Roger Bacon, 
saw the caption for the illustration there (p. 160), "From 
an early ms. of Roger Bacon, an account of eclipses and 
comets," and I noticed that the illustrations were in fact...

	f67v2 ("eclipses") and f68v3 ("comets") from the VMs!

	Good grief!

	I suppose, though, that the editor of this volume could 
have been responsible for the selection.

	I suppose Jim Reeds should put this in his VMs biblio.  :-)

Dennis
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