The Waste Books Fiction_Gift_Guide Gloomy yet hopeful

Gloomy yet hopeful

The Dish on Healthy

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The Waste Books Fiction_Gift_Guide Gloomy yet hopefulGerman scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society,