The personal diaries of the wife of Charles Darwin have been made available online. The BBC reports:
Emma Darwin’s notebooks cover six decades of the couple’s life together and provide an insight into the daily life of the Victorian scientist.
The first diary is dated 1824 when the then named Emma Wedgwood was just 16 years old.
The diaries reveal how the Darwins entertained visiting scientists - with guests sometimes numbering 10 or 15.
Personally I’m in two minds as to this development. On the one hand, I can see the value of these diaries in shedding light on Darwin the man, and no doubt they’ll be of interest to historians and biographers the world round. On the other hand, Darwin’s greatness lay not in his personality but in his science. In that respect, I’ve no interest in his personal life, what he ate for breakfast and how many friends he had round to dinner. There’s something quite voyeuristic about analysing Darwin’s private life when it’s not undertaken to illustrate and understand his science better.
March 12th, 2007
With surprising punctuality, those dear ladies from Monadith despatched the following email on Friday in response to our requests for hard scientific evidence to support their claims about bioresonance
Dear Mrs XXXX
In connection with our visit in your company I would like to express how grateful I am that you gave me the opportunity to introduce our Quit Smoking programm to your employees.
As I was asked by your employees to provide further information about our way of treatment I am enclosing two websides you can visit:
http://www.monadith.com.pl/literatura where you can find a list of available literature and www.regumed.de , webside of producer.
I would appreciate if you would be so kind and forward this information to your colleagues. If you require more details, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Kind Regards
Beata Milczarek
Monadith Ltd.
6 Royal Quay
tel. 0151 707 9874
0790 388 4622
This is disappointing, as I was hoping for something I could sink my teeth into, rather than a list of obscure references. I’ll have a dig through to see if there’s anything I can get my hands on, but this looks like the end of the line for our Monadith saga.
March 12th, 2007