Whilst agreeing with the ASA that agronomy is the science and practice of looking at agriculture from an integrated, holistic perspective, the Mundeign catalogue editor of matters biological would insist on adding the proviso that 'lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit'. This was of course the essential origin of the dispute with the geosciences editor who took the opposite view, namely 'aenean commodo ligula eget dolor.' Eventually the conflict was resolve by mediation, when both editors agreed to take voluntary diplomacy, and the type-setter took over ad hoc responisibilties (though this resulted in problems with the proof-rading).
Few treasures have aroused so much interest as the Mundeign Hoard - a single piece of decorative truc the function of which remains to this day controversial. Conventional opinion suggests that it was worn as a breast-plate by priests of the Omnes cult - but carbon dating indicates that it is of an earlier origin - perhaps being created at around the same time as the original earthworks at Stonehenge (5000 years ago give or take a few months).
In the '100 most useful inventions' section of Professor Mundeign's calatogue there is even a mention of Malvolio Claxendell, oddly not in relation to the infamous Leecock-Proust mechanism but because of the lesser known (but some say more widely used) Malvolio Claxendell's Fractured Light Yield (MCFLY) used to counter the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder (or BluFlu as it is commonly known). 6 out of 18 Swedish carpenters agree strongly that MCFLY is effective under controlled conditions.
Descartes insisted that everything is self-evident. He also mentioned in passing that he was amazed when he considered how weak his mind was and how prone to error. Therefore he could not be sure that everything is self-evident. Was he deceiving himself? He was probably wise to say that it is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. Sadly he died on February 11, 1650 so we can't be sure he would agree with what is written above.
The Catalogue has copies of the 1502 plans that Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci produced for Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II of Constantinople as a civil engineering project for a single span 720-foot bridge intended to span an inlet at the mouth of the Bosporus known as the Golden Horn. Beyazid did not pursue the project because he believed that such a construction was impossible. Leonardo's vision was resurrected in 2001 when a smaller bridge based on his design was constructed in Norway (Wikipedia).
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
In the catalogue's index of great artists Mantegna, El Greco and Picasso are the recipients of the Silver Award, but with respect to the work of John Dewey only Time and Memory are credited as true artists as 'they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.'
For some reason the catalogue cannot identify the writer of the quote “Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.” The best candidate seems to be Rosalind Azulai.
