De parvis grandis acervus erit
Johannes Patruus
And heapes are made, of manie little thinges."
The Google toolbar's motto, "De parvis grandis acervus erit",
displayed beneath its version number in the "About Google Toolbar"
box, is apparently taken from the heading to page 88 of Geffrey
Whitney's "A Choice Of Emblemes" of 1586, of which this is an image:
http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/whitn088.htm
Whitney's motto is in turn patterned on Ovid's expressions,
"De multis grandis acervus erit" (Remedia Amoris, line 424):
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ovid/ovid.rem.shtml
and "De stipula grandis acervus erit" (Amores, Book I, VIII, 90):
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ovid/ovid.amor1.shtml
Concerning "emblem books" in general, see:
http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/
and Whitney's in particular:
http://www.mun.ca/alciato/wcomm.html
which appears to have enjoyed reprints as late as 1971:
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookSearchPL?ph=2&tn=emblemes&an=whitney
Johannes
Naughty letters, naughtier emails:
http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/content/evidence_cab.htm
Calculator heaven:
http://www.google.com/search?q=50c+in+f
http://www.google.com/search?q=50+c+in+mph
Edward Casey
"Johannes Patruus" <JPat...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the calculator info, Johannes. It worked for "1000 ^ 94 * mass
of earth" but not for "1000 ^ 95 * mass of earth." I think that the mother
of all text editors, emacs, has a built in calculator that will grind out
things like (googleplex ^ googleplex)! but in this particular case it
might take longer than forever. This would give nightmares even to the
author of "The Sandreckoner."
Eduardus
Edward Casey
"Edward Casey" <ej...@cpinternet.com> wrote in message
news:vki022g...@corp.supernews.com...
>
> Thanks for the calculator info, Johannes. It worked for "1000 ^ 94 *
mass
> of earth" but not for "1000 ^ 95 * mass of earth." I think that the
mother
> of all text editors, emacs, has a built in calculator that will grind
out
> things like (googleplex ^ googleplex)! but in this particular case it
> might take longer than forever. This would give nightmares even to the
> author of "The Sandreckoner."
>
> Eduardus
>
To any latin/science teachers (Petrus Austriacus?) who might not know
about this site:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.ht
ml
it is a beautiful visual demonstration of orders of magnitude from 10
million light years out (local group) down to 100 attometers (sub-atomic
fine structure) in an atom of a DNA molecule of a nucleus of a cell of an
oak leaf.
Eduardus