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digest 1997-12-14 #001


11:29 PM 12/13/97 -0800
From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

Daily SLS Email Digest
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Date: 13 Dec 1997 17:25:52 -0800
From: "Pamela S Gossin" 

Subject: Encyc of Lit and Sci, attachment
For those having trouble accessing attachment to previous posting,
here 'tis:
An Encyclopedia of Literature and Science, ed. Pamela Gossin
(Greenwood Press).
THEMES AND TOPICS
Culture (and Lit and Sci)               1250 words
Africa                          1000            
Asia                            1000    
21st c. (Lit and Sci in)                1500            
botany                          100
classification systems/nomenclature     100     
detective fiction                       100
economics                       100
engineering/engineers           150
interdisciplinarity                     200     
machine                         100
music                           100     
nebular hypothesis                       50
publishing/printing/books               150
race                            300
sociology                       300     
symbolist movement              100
technicians/technician-hero             100     
ANCIENT
Aristotle (384-322 BC)           150    
Hesiod                             75   
"Hippocrates"/ Hippocratic writings       100   
Horace                            50
Lucian                            75    
Plato                           150     
Presocratic philosophers                150     
MEDIEVAL
Chaucer                         100     
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)     100     
Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499)               50
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1518)   100
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola     50
SEVENTEENTH and EIGHTEENTH C.
William Blake                   250                             
Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac      50                             
T. Hobbes                        50                             
Samuel Pepys                     50                             
Rabelais                                100                            

Thomas Shadwell                   50                                   

Vico                              50                            
Mary Wolstonecraft              100                             
NINETEENTH C.  (death dates to 1940)
Robert Burton                     50    
Robert Chambers                   50
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov           75            
Charles Dickens                 100     
Gustave Flaubert                        100     
Edmond and Jules Goncourt                 50    
Edmund Gosse                      50    
Jack London                       50
Thomas Malthus                    50    
Herman Melville                   75    
Jules Michelet                    50    
William Morris                    75    
Marcel Proust d.1922              75    
Clemence Royer                    50    
Herbert Spencer                   50    
Jules Verne                     100     
TWENTIETH C.
Douglas Adams                     75    
John Banville                     75
Ralph Ellison                     50                    
Penelope Fitzgerald               50    
Benoit Mandelbrot                         50    
Andrew Miller (Ingenious Pain)    50
Gloria Naylor                     50
Sam Shepherd                      50    
John Updike                       50    
Pamela S. Gossin (psgossin@telepath.com)