Chris Anderson about TEDx

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Reactie van salima Essakkati op 15 April 2009 op 20.10

A nice example of this cross-fertilisation in salons is Max Brods' " Tycho Brahe's Path to God". In this novel Brod uses his fellow salon visitor Einstein, as a model for a character in the story; astronomer Johannes Keppler.............these nice flowers in the field really make me happy....................

Reactie van salima Essakkati op 15 April 2009 op 19.30

Perhaps the TED salons will revive the old Salons of yesterday............I found a very nice illustration of the power of Salons and spreading Ideas............here follows the excerpt:

" ......Einstein now came down with serious stomach problems that would continue to plague him throughout his life. Though often confined to bed, he remained well enough to fulfill his duties at work. Partly to escape the joyless mood at home and for the intellectual satisfaction he couldn't find at work, he became a regular visitor to one of the fashionable salons of the old city, run by Berta and Otto Fanta. In the Fantas' salon, an eighteenth-century house with an impressive view of the castle of Prague, young Jewish intellectuals and other notables gathered weekly to chat about philosophy, music and literature, much as Einstein has done in his earlier years wih his friends in Bern. Among the salon guests who would read from his manuscript was Franz Kafka, a sullen young lawyer whose existentialist writings had not yet become known and who was trying to soldify his Jewish identity. Also present were other writers, philosophers and Zionists."

from: Albert Einstein a Biography (Alice Calaprice)