Tuesday July 25, 2006
Tuesday July 25, 2006 
From French-language Wikimedia comes this picture of a sculpture titled "Modern Book Printing" on Berlin's "Walk of Ideas." Evidently the sculpture is in honor of Gutenberg. Oh, and the 2006 World Cup.
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Pretty neat. Talk about your German canon. I wondered if the relative thickness of the books was indicative of each author's importance or maybe scaled to reflect the amount either the author had written or had been written as commentary and analysis on that author. I'm probably reading way way too much into this, however.
It reminds me of the older university buildings where names of great people in a particular discipline were always carved around the top. I was just in your old haunt, Charlottesville, over the weekend and loved the biology building on UVA that has the names on it and the carvings of animals too (walrus, boar, etc).
Posted by Scott Warren on July 25, 2006 at 03:28 PM EDT #
Scott, there's a building just like that on the NC State campus. Broughton Hall, with its occult facade, has the names of famous mechanical engineers engraved under the cornice of the building on the sides: Brayton, Beau de Rochas, Diesel, Otto, Carnot, Brown, Barber, Lanoir, Priestman, Barnett.
http://www.ncsu.edu/facilities/buildings/broughton.html
Posted by Karen Ciccone on August 01, 2006 at 01:12 PM EDT #