...led Rothschild to write to me? And what were the consequences? Sir Thomas Browne wrote in Urn Burial: "What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." 25 Mathematics as Literature: Prime Number Theory I shall attempt to explain (neither deductively nor...

...5, from which MWS quotes elsewhere in The Last Man: "What time the persons of these Ossuaries entred the famous Nations of the dead, and slept with Princes and Counsellors, might admit a wide solution" (Worts, ed. Geoffrey Keynes I: 165). 40 See Edward Young, Night Thoughts 1.115-16: "This is the Desart,...

...presented with a clue to its original nature in the story's gnomic epigraph from Sir Thomas Browne: "What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." The epigraph is oddly soothing, since...

...(Suet. Tib. 70.3) and immortalized by Sir Thomas Browne's gloss on Suetonius in Urn Burial ("What songs the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture"). 887-91: Ap. is, as we have seen (1.367 ff., with n. ad loc.) knowledgable about seafaring: the actions...

...another animate most of what is discussed later in this book. 2 Written records: evidence and argument What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzling Questions are not beyond all conjecture. 2.1 Prologue (Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urne...

...what name Achilles . . . women: Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82), Hydriotaphia, Um-Burial (1658), ch. 5: 'What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture'; post-Homeric elaborations of the legend of Achilles recount that Thetis (Achilles 's mother), knowing...

...reader at length shuts him up, with the book. "What song the Syrens sang," says Sir Thomas Browne, "or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture" — but it would puzzle Sir Thomas, backed by Achilles and all the Syrens in Heathendom, to say, in...

...the wave function. 15. [Stapp 1993:68]. Bell's Thunderbolt (1 964) 513 1 6. "What songs the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself...puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture." [Browne 1658] 17. [Herbert 1987:220]. 18. [Stapp 1975:271]. 19. [Mermin 1985:41]. Chapter 19 The Toll...

...significance was to their builders is a difficult problem but not one that has to remain unanswerable. 'What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles...among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond of all conjecture,' decided Sir Thomas Browne.5" Nor are the mysteries of stone circles. Century by...

...putting the question to grammarians (Tib. 70; cf. 62on.); cf. Sir Thomas Browne, lime-Burial Ch. 5 'What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzling Questions, are not beyond all conjecture.' 162 Praescia uenturi . . . leti: the adjective praescius...