From: Joost Rekveld (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Oct 01 2005 - 13:36:05 PDT
i think you're right about the 'stumbling' side of research and i also
think the size-sorting move is going to stimulate interdisciplinary
research quite a bit.
Why would a book about Bresson be better than a book about, say,
quantumdynamics or the reception of Euclids elements in China, as long
as they are the same size as 'Metaphors on Vision' ?
I'm looking foward to this...
ciao,
Joost.
On 30 Sep 2005, at 19:33, James Macgillivray wrote:
>> usually researchers are not browsing, they know what they're looking
>> for.
>
> But from personal experience, I can think of so many times that the
> most important information was found by chance in a book in the next
> shelf to the one I was looking at, or in the shelf opposite. Maybe
> this is frivolous, but it seemed important to me at one time.
>
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