Comments on: A Historical Science http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/07/02/a-historical-science/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:28:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: John R Ramsden http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/07/02/a-historical-science/#comment-41156 John R Ramsden Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:01:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/07/02/a-historical-science/#comment-41156 Having claimed to have solved the problem of Julius Caesar's landing site, perhaps Olson & co could turn their attention to the potentially more lucrative project of finding the treasure lost by King John in the Wash (a marine estuary in Eastern England): From http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/PlaceinHistory/content/41KingJohn.aspx <blockquote>If the treasure is really buried somewhere near modernday Sutton Bridge, then it would be covered by 20 feet or more of silt, so we can all put our metal detectors away. But that hasn’t stopped people looking. During the 1930s a group of American treasure hunters paid local farmers 2s 6d an acre for their help in looking for the jewels at Walpole Island. More recently a team from Nottingham University took soil samples in a bid to discover the causeway the wagon train used. The search goes on. We may never know the truth.</blockquote> I very much doubt there's anything to find, or ever was, but who knows? Having claimed to have solved the problem of Julius Caesar’s landing site, perhaps Olson & co could turn their attention to the potentially more lucrative project of finding the treasure lost by King John in the Wash (a marine estuary in Eastern England):

From http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/PlaceinHistory/content/41KingJohn.aspx

If the treasure is really buried somewhere near modernday Sutton Bridge, then it would be covered by 20 feet or more of silt, so we can all put our metal detectors away. But that hasn’t stopped people looking. During the 1930s a group of American treasure hunters paid local farmers 2s 6d an acre for their help in looking for the jewels at Walpole Island. More recently a team from Nottingham University took soil samples in a bid to discover the causeway the wagon train used. The search goes on. We may never know the truth.

I very much doubt there’s anything to find, or ever was, but who knows?

]]> By: Michael Williams http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/07/02/a-historical-science/#comment-41155 Michael Williams Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:34:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/07/02/a-historical-science/#comment-41155 A neurosurgeon is having lunch with a historian. The neurosurgeon explains that he intends to build a good practice and make a name for himself before retiring and writing a history of the field. The historian responds that he plans to retire and take up neurosurgery. (via <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001475" rel="nofollow">http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001475</a>) A neurosurgeon is having lunch with a historian. The neurosurgeon explains that he intends to build a good practice and make a name for himself before retiring and writing a history of the field. The historian responds that he plans to retire and take up neurosurgery.

(via http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001475)

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