Philobiblon: For all you social "scientists" out there ...

Tuesday, July 27, 2004

More wisdom from Richard de Bury ...

"The educated man seeks such degree of certainty as he perceives the subject-matter will bear".

A little more about the good Richard can be found at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1997/BooksPNC.html Or if you'd like to read him in Latin, here it is (at least I think that's what it is ...) http://www.informalmusic.com/latinsoc/debury.html

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