Tuesday, April 15, 2025

M is for Man and Mathematics: "Micromégas" by Voltaire translated by H. I. Woolf

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Another double!

Other M Ideas: Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memory and Imagination, Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy

Summary: Numbers

Bonus: Trippy


Commentary: This is one of the popular choices for "first sci-fi story", and I'm starting a sci-fi unit in my classes next week, so I figured I'd give it a try. It's fairly pointless, and in large part consists of dick measuring contests between aliens over who is taller, who has more senses, etc. They work their way around to philosophy eventually, but mostly as a weak summary of the ancient Greeks.

1/5: I'm really not thrilled with the quality here compared to T5FSOB. Lots of stinkers in the two weeks I've been working it.

I'm thankful for math, since it lets us do just about everything.

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