{"id":52154,"date":"2022-01-22T03:01:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T03:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=52154"},"modified":"2022-01-22T03:01:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T03:01:12","slug":"fourteen-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/01\/22\/fourteen-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a 1934 letter to Rimel Lovecraft remarks…<\/p>\n

I have the entire series of Steele’s old ’14 Weeks’ textbooks […] which were wildly popular half a century ago [circa 1885] and which I still think are almost unsurpassed in giving beginners a good introduction to the science they cover.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These included Joel Dorman Steele\u2019s A Fourteen Weeks Course in Descriptive Astronomy<\/em> (1873), found in his library after his death. Joshi remarks in I Am Providence<\/em> that of the old astronomy books found there…<\/p>\n

some at least must have come from [his grandmother] Robie’s [astronomy] library. Of course, Lovecraft, ever the ardent used-bookstore hunter, could have picked up some of these titles on various book-hunting expeditions throughout his life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Archive.org has several of the “Fourteen Weeks” series as scans, including the one on Descriptive Astronomy<\/a><\/em>, though an 1875 edition.<\/p>\n

In his reading guide for Anne Tillery Renshaw he calls the one in Physics<\/em> “antediluvian” and classes it among the “whiskered reliques”, but still rates the ones on Chemistry<\/em> and Zoology<\/em>… <\/p>\n

For a sound elementary introduction read Steele’s ancient Fourteen Weeks in Chemistry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Steele’s old Fourteen Weeks in Zoology is an easy start, and not at all misleading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This might sound strange to us, but it’s no different than someone in 2022 recommending books from 1972 or thereabouts. Just as we might now still want to recommend a Carl Sagan or a Richard Feynman book to a beginner.<\/p>\n

None of the mentions tell us when he acquired the set, though it must have been before 1934.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a 1934 letter to Rimel Lovecraft remarks… I have the entire series of Steele’s old ’14 Weeks’ textbooks […] …<\/p>\n

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