About Wednesday 24 October 1660

Jude Russo on 25 Oct 2023  •  Link

"Light" is also fossilized in the familiar compound "skylight" (a window in your roof).

About Saturday 6 October 1660

Jude Russo on 7 Oct 2023  •  Link

Here's a charming piece from P. Hitchens on growing up with the "het" for "hat" pronunciation not so very long ago.

https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/…

About Wednesday 12 September 1660

Jude Russo on 13 Sep 2023  •  Link

Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) was a well-regarded French philosopher and an astronomer by training. His life's project was reviving the atomic physics of the ancient Epicurean school; in the mid-1650s, these efforts made a bit of a splash in English academic circles, particularly after the 1654 publication of a work titled "Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charletoniana, or A Fabrick of Science Natural, upon a Hypothesis of Atoms, Founded by Epicurus, Repaired by Petrus Gassendus, and Augmented by Walter Charleton."

It's neat to see our man Pepys having the most cutting-edge scientific thinkers in his library---all the more interesting if, as Glyn persuasively suggests above, that it's his old college textbooks.

About Wednesday 29 August 1660

Jude Russo on 30 Aug 2023  •  Link

In re "which" above: The 1662 Book of Common Prayer has the wording "Our Father, which art in heaven"---still a perfectly acceptable use of the time, irrespective of the social standing of the antecedent!