I have emailed Odessa David and called off our meeting in Cambridge in two weeks time. Seems the prudent thing to do as it is not a necessary meeting and Cambridge is a very public place with many tourists. We go to Romania in five weeks time.
I have washed the sheets and they are now dry and airing. It is a lovely sunny, windy day, and nice and cold. Quite heavenly really if one is dressed correctly. It is very pleasing to see the land drying up and the farmers can get on.
I have my philosophy homework to do for next week. We have reached the afterlife.
History of Art, the Impressionists, yesterday, was looking exclusively at the lesser known female artists like Marie Braquemond and Mary Cassatt and the Morisot sisters. I actually found it rather a boring session and we had an irritating woman from another class who joined us and she smelt of cigarettes. I thought well she's at risk for sure, and she had a smokers cough.
I have Galileo to read - not an easy read and I admit to skipping quite a bit because Heilbron goes into the mathematics of Galileo, way beyond me, and as the book is very thick in pages I think there must be quite a lot of this. I do like the astrology bits though. Kings and Queens would consult Galileo for instructions of action to take based on planetary position. Galileo was considered to be very accurate.
Dowries were a big thing in his day and he was lumbered with paying his two sisters' dowries after his father died, his father had started to pay but hadn't finished, with much pressure put upon him by their husbands. He also looked after his mother if she was ill, or when she was ill, and paid another teacher to stand in for him, which meant that he was handing part of his salary to another man. Galileo was frequently very poor. He never married himself which some think was for this reason, but he did have three children by a courtesan and he remained with the same one but did not live with her. He was unable to marry her because of what she was. Galileo was a university professor of mathematics at several universities moving around quite a bit and he understood the physics of oars and rowing and how to position the oarsmen and was consulted by the Venetian shipbuilders at the Arsenale at the time for his advice on this. It is amazing to think that when I have stepped around the Arsenale I have been walking where Galileo once walked, looked and spoke and pointed. I find that truly wonderful.
Galileo's dates are 1564 to 1642 and he was born in Pisa.
I will go to Morrisons in a while to shop as usual.
The Jigsaw, 1000 pieces, degree of difficulty, hard, in my opinion. Butterflies with names of each one. (Not quite finished).
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