Comments on: Thank Jevons http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Homer Paxton http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30879 Homer Paxton Thu, 30 Mar 2006 02:38:04 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30879 Jevons was not feeling well and went to his boss and said I keep on seeing sunspots. his boss asked if he had see a doctor? No just sunspots! Jevons was not feeling well and went to his boss and said I keep on seeing sunspots.
his boss asked if he had see a doctor?

No just sunspots!

]]> By: Tony.T http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30876 Tony.T Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:14:49 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30876 Apparently Jevons name is pronounced Jee-vons. I heard it from his great nephew's butcher's offal supplier. Apparently Jevons name is pronounced Jee-vons. I heard it from his great nephew’s butcher’s offal supplier.

]]> By: Nicholas Gruen http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30875 Nicholas Gruen Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:00:52 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30875 Yes, they were great pictures. There's a hundred or so of them in the National Library. What he got done in 5 years was amazing not just in terms of his studies but just in terms of charging round the place meeting all and sundry (even if, like Charles Darwin, he was somewhat dismayed by how rough those Orstralians were. Yes, they were great pictures. There’s a hundred or so of them in the National Library. What he got done in 5 years was amazing not just in terms of his studies but just in terms of charging round the place meeting all and sundry (even if, like Charles Darwin, he was somewhat dismayed by how rough those Orstralians were.

]]> By: James Farrell http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30874 James Farrell Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:29:01 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30874 What moved me most in the Powerhouse exhibition were the photos Jevons took of the bush, which looked just the same 150 years ago. They brought it home to me that he really was in Australia, not just in some quaint 'Colony of New South Wales' one reads about in books. What moved me most in the Powerhouse exhibition were the photos Jevons took of the bush, which looked just the same 150 years ago. They brought it home to me that he really was in Australia, not just in some quaint ‘Colony of New South Wales’ one reads about in books.

]]> By: david tiley http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30872 david tiley Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:24:04 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30872 14,825 puns ago. 14,825 puns ago.

]]> By: Homer Paxton http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30870 Homer Paxton Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:57:40 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30870 Thanks Nicholas, It has been a long time since I read that. Thanks Nicholas,

It has been a long time since I read that.

]]> By: Gaby http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30868 Gaby Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:48:05 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30868 It must be Jevons week! A little tangentially, but Brian Weatherson has an interesting post on the future of philosophy and whether it will the trend of increasing specialization will continue on his blog, "Thoughts, Arguments and Rants" uses Jevons's intellectual work to exemplify his argument as to how specialization in philosophy may continue in the future: http://tar.weatherson.net/archives/004718.html#more. Well worth a read. In fact, Weatherson's blog is itself worth reading. It must be Jevons week!

A little tangentially, but Brian Weatherson has an interesting post on the future of philosophy and whether it will the trend of increasing specialization will continue on his blog, “Thoughts, Arguments and Rants” uses Jevons’s intellectual work to exemplify his argument as to how specialization in philosophy may continue in the future: http://tar.weatherson.net/archives/004718.html#more.

Well worth a read.

In fact, Weatherson’s blog is itself worth reading.

]]> By: Nicholas Gruen http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30867 Nicholas Gruen Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:37:28 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30867 Sunspots Sunspots

]]> By: Homer Paxton http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30862 Homer Paxton Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:51:35 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30862 A tenor says it was a soap opera! Was it Jevons that thought the business cycle was associated with changes in the planets? A tenor says it was a soap opera!

Was it Jevons that thought the business cycle was associated with changes in the planets?

]]> By: Steve Edney http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30860 Steve Edney Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:39:17 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30860 "You can see the monument to that sermon somewhere not far from Circular Quay" The Richard Johnson monument is on the corner of Hunter and Bligh Streets. “You can see the monument to that sermon somewhere not far from Circular Quay”

The Richard Johnson monument is on the corner of Hunter and Bligh Streets.

]]> By: meika http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30859 meika Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:15:50 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30859 the first thing we should do in thanks is, "Do no harm." the first thing we should do in thanks is, “Do no harm.”

]]> By: Rafe Champion http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30858 Rafe Champion Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:43:35 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30858 Yes, Jevons along with R G Collingwood deserve a revival of interest. If only I could raise the energy to get another edition of Revivalist on line. Among the subjects of The Revivalist series so far - Jacques Barzun, Yvor Winters, James McAuley, Liam Hudson, Karl and Charlotte Buhler, Rene Wellek, Peter Bauer, Ian Suttie. http://www.the-rathouse.com/Revivalist.html Yes, Jevons along with R G Collingwood deserve a revival of interest. If only I could raise the energy to get another edition of Revivalist on line. Among the subjects of The Revivalist series so far – Jacques Barzun, Yvor Winters, James McAuley, Liam Hudson, Karl and Charlotte Buhler, Rene Wellek, Peter Bauer, Ian Suttie.
http://www.the-rathouse.com/Revivalist.html

]]> By: Jason Soon http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30855 Jason Soon Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:08:36 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/03/28/thank-jevons/#comment-30855 Perhaps you should leave the punning to Homer Paxton, Nicholas. But a fascinating compendium of facts - I had no idea Jevons was such a polymath. Perhaps you should leave the punning to Homer Paxton, Nicholas. But a fascinating compendium of facts – I had no idea Jevons was such a polymath.

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