Talk:Dionysius Lardner
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It is sad that Lardner is remembered for being a luddite and a savant rather than a practitioner, and an enemy of railway development, all things which were the exact opposite of everything that he held dear.
I am writing a book about Dionysius Lardner entitled Dionysius Lardner: Steam, Scandal and the Six-shilling Sciences, (no publisher as yet!)I would be happy to hear from anyone who has information about him. My email address is alm57@cam.ac.uk I have spoken to most living Lardner experts, read his archives and am in touch with some of his descendents. --Anna L Martin 16:41, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
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I'ver removed this from the article as Wikipedia is not a crystal ball:
Andrew Odlyzko is including a chapter on Lardner in his forthcoming book "The Internet and Victorian Railroads: How to Blame Microsoft for the Dot-com Bubble and How to Prepare for the Next Techno-mania."
When Odlyzko's book is published, it can go in Further Reading or, better, actually be used to expand the article and thus be a Reference. However it may be more appropriate to mention Lardner in Odlyzko's article than vice versa (unless this article is be a list of every writer who has mentioned Lardner in the last 200 years). JackyR | Talk 15:27, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
