Yesterday I received a letter from Google addressed to Robert T. Gunther at Found History. As founder of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford, where I did my doctoral work, and a major figure in my dissertation, I am very honored to welcome Dr. Gunther to the Found History staff. Despite having passed away in 1940, it is my hope that Dr. Gunther will make significant contribution to this blog’s coverage of the history of scientific instrumentation.
An Unexpected Honor
October 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments
Tags: Biography · Blogs · Google · History of Technology · Humor · Museums
4 responses ↓
1 Mark Sample // Oct 23, 2009 at 10:46 am
Wouldn’t it be cool if you suddenly found your chairs and books stacked in uncanny arrays every morning from here on out?
The real question, of course, is, what was inside the letter?
2 Tom Scheinfeldt // Oct 23, 2009 at 11:50 am
Nothing very sexy … just a solicitation for ad space on the site.
3 An Annoying Pedant // Oct 23, 2009 at 6:45 pm
You might want to review the syntactic implications of your second sentence above. It took me a few reads to realise that you were not yourself claiming to be the founder of the MHS.
4 Tom Scheinfeldt // Oct 23, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Ah, yes, good catch. Neither annoying nor pedantic.
Although, if I’m getting his mail, perhaps I am the founder of MHS
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