Re: origin of magazines

**P* R* <p*@hotmail.com>**

Thank you for this, Catriona. Just today, we were considering a book club at Morven (the historic house in Princeton NJ where I do various kinds of work), focusing on subjects somehow related to mid-Atlantic states' history, natural history, or even peripherally related subjects. This fits! I welcome other candidates.
The connection between an ammunition chamber, and an "arsenal of knowledge" makes sense. Thanks for the enlightenment.

Pam Ruch
http://www.helpinggardenersgrow.com/

> From: Catriona@CatrionaTudorErler.com
> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:32:55 -0500
> To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [GWL] origin of magazines
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> In the fascinating book called Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore, I learned that the first periodical called  a magazine (The Gentleman's Magazine) appeared in London in 1731.  Excerpting from Lepore's  book: "It offered 'a Monthly Collection, to treasure up, as in a Magazine, the most remarkable Pieces.'  The metaphor is to weapons.  A magazine is, literally, an arsenal; a piece is a firearm.  A magazine is an arsenal of knowledge.  It is also a library, dissected: bits of this book and bits of that.  A magazine is a library - knowledge - cut into bits, so that more people can use it.  Magazines, then, contained the great and soaring promise of the age: knowledge for all."
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> On Jan 8, 2014, at 8:58 PM, Pamela Ruch <pamruch@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > The controversy between those who do and those who don't believe in plant intelligence feels very contrived. We are limited by the construct that ours is the only true intelligence, and by the words that we use to define intelligence within the limits of our own species. Pollen did a good job in opening up the argument, moving it beyond the semantic. Darwin, once again, emerges as the forward-thinking theorist. His thoughts on the circumnutation of vines in The Power of Movement in Plants are amazingly current. The clicking sounds made by plants as they elongate (for echolocation?) -- fascinating. There is so much we don't know, and could know, if we would just get out of our own way!   
> > 
> > Pam Ruch
> > http://www.helpinggardenersgrow.com/
> > 
> > 
> >> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 14:30:32 -0800
> >> From: bettymackey@verizon.net
> >> To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
> >> Subject: Re: [GWL] Do Plants "Think"?
> >> 
> >> Thanks for the link, Duane. It was easier to open it than to go to another room and look through the unread magazines.
> >> 
> >> I also have a newly found old copy of The Secret Life of Plants -- left to me by a friend.
> >> 
> >> Betty Mackey
> >> www.mackeybooks.com  (under reconstruction)
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> >> Duane Campbell
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