Book 8 - John Gribbin "The Fellowship"

John Gribbin "The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution" (Penguin)





Gribbin’s devotion to all things scientific makes him the perfect person to write about the early days of the scientific revolution and the Royal Society, England’s premier scientific society (and still in existence today). The Society was founded in November 1660 as a group of 12 natural philosophers with the aim of creating experiments which would allow them to understand the laws of nature and the universe without bias from religion or previous suppositions.

Gribbin’s history narrates the lives of some two dozen scientists and thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While it seems a little heavy on biographical detail at times, the various threads to come together to give a very good picture of the creation of the scientific method. A decent start for those looking background on the history of science.

Good Morning

Quiet Sunday

Just hoovered, so I suppose that I will have to do my reports from yesterday now. Nothing much else to do today except listening to some music. I did an exchange with Julian at Fine Records and picked up three jazz albums. These I shall listen to today

Just Wondering

What was the last thing you bought on impulse?

When was the last time you gave someone flowers?

What the longest trip you've ever had on a bus?

Old Playlists!

I was on Facebook the other day looking at the pages for The Rights Of Man pub in Lewes and I found an old playlist of mine from  2009. I was DJing with friends Ben and Andy at The Great Eastern pub in Brighton. This was my playlist and then it was all vinyl!

Prognosis Jan 10, 2009, Playlist

Caravan - Memory Lain ,Hugh / Headloss (Deram LP)
Janko Nilovic - Aerospatial (Vadim Music LP)
Amon Duul II - Race From Here To Your Ears (United Artists LP)
Cochise - Home Again (United Artists LP)
Neil Ardley - Glittering Circles (Detour LP)
Bullet - GBH (Contour LP)
Kim - Nezna Pelosi (Most LP)
Serge Gainsbourg - Requiem Pour Un Con (LSD LP)
Jethro Tull - Cross-Eyed Mary (Chrysalis LP)
Pentangle - Light Flight (Transatlantic LP)
Pentangle - Springtime Promises (Transatlantic LP)
Focus - Hocus Pocus (Blue Horizon LP)
Siouxsie and The Banshees - Tattoo (Polydor 7")
Alan Parker - Santa Monica Bound (Beeb 7")
The HiFly Orchestra - Sweet Honey Bee (Tramp 7")
John Cameron Quartet - Troublemaker (Jazzman 7")
Ten Years After - Love Like A Man (Deram 7")
Black Widow - Accident (CBS 7")

On that same night much earlier, I did a stint at The Hampton Arms with DJ Flipside.

Eric Burdon and War - Spill The Wine (UA LP)
Summer Odyssey - Loose Water (Detour LP)
RTB Big Band - Balkan Express (Most LP)
Serge Gainsbourg - Requiemiem Pour Un Con (LSD LP)
Barclay James Harvest - Mocking Bird (Harvest LP)
Sun Ra - Spectrum (Monkey Records LP)
John Zorn - Poverty (Once Upon A Time In America) (Nonesuch LP)
Focus - Eruption (Blue Horizon LP)
Alan Parker - Santa Monica Bound (Beeb 7")
Churchill Stage Band - Superstition (Dynamite Soul 7")
Boris Gardner - Elizabethan Reggae (Duke 7")
Max Romeo - Wet Dream (Unity 7")
Dave and Ansil Collins - Double Barrel (Technique 7")



A mixed bag of styles there!

Sunday Prognosis

Time for some music -


Janko Nilovic - Aerospatial

( More music here )

Enjoy.