COMPLETE: Pioneers of Science by Oliver Lodge - jo

[Availle]

Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge (1851 - 1940).

Volunteers outside the USA: Oliver Lodge died in 1940. His work is still protected by copyright in places, like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years.

This project is now complete. All audio files can be found on our catalog page here:

http://librivox.org/pioneers-of-science-by-oliver-lodge/

This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. The first part of this book is devoted to the biographies and discoveries of well known astronomers like Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton. In the second part, the biographies take a back seat, while scientific discoveries are discussed more extensively, like the discovery of Asteroids and Neptune, a treatise on the tides and others. (Summary by Availle)

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[knotyouraveragejo]

Nice choice! I'll MC for you.

I've added a hyphen to the titles in the ID3 tag example.

Year of author's death (note: in some countries copyright is death of author plus 50 or 70 years) 1940 - not PD in Europe until Jan 1st 2010??

Unless I am mistaken, it's actually not until Jan 1st 2011.

Since the preface is so short, do you want to include it in the file with the first lecture? If so, let me know and I'll change the numbering in the MW before you start entering the titles.

[Availle]

Hi Jo,

for some reason I had a feeling you'd pick that one up

Thanks for setting everything up, I'll fill the MW in a moment...

About the hyphen - I came across this thread (second post) that's why I removed it... http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=397977&highlight=hyphen#397977

You are right, the preface is _very_ short, however, I think I'd just leave it extra as to not 'disturb' the lectures. I have not yet checked the exact length of each section, so we might need more sections later?

Thanks for your help in any case!

[Steampunk]

Cool! Astronomy text from back when there were only eight planets. Oh... wait... Damn you, IAU!

I call dibs on lecture II. "Tycho Brahe" is so much fun to say and anyone with a gold and silver prosthetic nose is okay in my book.


Jim

[knotyouraveragejo]

I've always used the hyphens. I actually like the way it looks, but if you want to leave them out, I won't argue the point. The files will sort correctly either way, and that's the important part.

Adding more sections can only be done at the bottom of the table, so to avoid having to do a lot of cutting and pasting to move things down, it would be easiest if you check the word counts while you are entering the titles.

Edit: Ah I see you are already doing this!

[Availle]

Hi Jo,

I've filled the MW, and I don't think we'll need the extra sections. Many of the sections are quite long, but the word count is a bit 'over' as I just marked the whole section, including page numbers, figure captions etc. All of them will be well under one hour, I suspect, so no worries there!

Thanks for your help - I hope there will be a DPL along soon...

[knotyouraveragejo]

If not, you can always advertise for one.

I'd like to claim section 17: The Tides if I may.

[Availle]

Cool! Astronomy text from back when there were only eight planets. Oh... wait... Damn you, IAU!

I call dibs on lecture II. "Tycho Brahe" is so much fun to say and anyone with a gold and silver prosthetic nose is okay in my book.

Fascinating... And he kept a tame moose as a pet. What an interesting guy!

However, the second lecture is all yours. Enjoy!

(And, as a side note, I put myself down for the Preface...)

[Availle]

If not, you can always advertise for one.

I'd like to claim section 17: The Tides if I may.

Okay, lets wait for a DPL a little bit more. In the meantime, you can record your very own section 17... Thanks!

[Minister of Fun]

I would be willing to do Lecture 1.

Thanks.

Maywalt

[Availle]

I would be willing to do Lecture 1.

Thanks.

Maywalt

Hi Maywalt and thank you!

I put you down for Lecture 1 on Copernicus. If you need anything, just let me know!

[Steampunk]

Section 2:

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/jo/pioneersofscience_02_lodge.mp3

32:00


Jim

[Availle]

Thanks for your chapter, Jim!

MW updated - awaiting some PL'er

[Availle]

No PL'er coming along, so I did it myself: The following should be corrected in Lecture II:

3:20 annual emotion/apparent annual emotion - annual MOTION (not sure, hard to hear?)

3:36 position of the sun is defit - DEFINITE (not sure, hard to hear?)

19:59 Hallow's pills - HOLLOWAY'S pills

22:46 Copenhagen and Elisnore - ELSINORE

25:51 ingenious tricks and automa - AUTOMATA

Besides that, excellent reading, thank you! You can always read more, you know...

[ewlabonte]

I would like to do lecture VIII - 08