BibliOdyssey: Early Microscopes

BibliOdyssey: Early Microscopes.
BibliOdyssey is one of the coolest blogs on the intertubes. and this post shows why. Go look at the pretties! Go look at the pretties! It’s History of Science geekery at its best.

Take this burden from me…

I can’t imagine submitting myself to the yoke of not-thinking, of obedience to an external authority.
It wasn’t always so.
For years, hurt and depression led me on a quest for a yoke to take away the pain. Take this burden from me — that was the constant cry of my heart.
I wanted to believe in God, [...]

The thing about Buddha is…

Previously:
The thing about Jesus is
The thing about Muhammad is
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We now get to a religious icon who doesn’t 1)bore me, or 2)scare the shit out of me. But we also get into some seriously messed up territory here, because — even more than Jesus and Mo — we have a multiplicity of characters going by the [...]