Ball of Science

A great merry ball of whatever sciencey stuff I decide to post.

What I'm Reading Now

What I'm Reading Now

Lewis, C. S. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

I needed to read this book. Friends have been telling me this for a couple of years now, and I'm just now getting around to it. Now I know why. If I hadn't read this book, then my dissertation might have been in danger of becoming just a crappy version of this book.

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Trey Gorden: I'm a PhD candidate in Literary Studies in the English Department at Purdue University. I study medieval literature, most specifically how people in the Middle Ages wrote about science and technology for non-technical audiences and how that writing influenced the model of reality that we see represented in literary works of the time. Right now I'm focusing on astronomy texts.

In this blog I will write about the progress I'm making on my dissertation, any interesting things I read that I can't use in my dissertation, and matters of science education, especially the ongoing conversation over whether we should just scrap science education altogether and use the time to advance whatever religious agenda happens to be the hardest to get away from at the moment.

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