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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Galileo's Anagram
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Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 13:55:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 25 13:55:16 1984
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> A true story.  It was common to stake ones claim to priority in 
> those days by publishing anagrams.

Just out of curiosity -- where and how were such anagrams "published"?
I didn't think that "newspapers" existed yet, and a one-paragraph anagram
couldn't make a book or even a pamphlet. Were they posted somewhere,
like Luther's theses on the church door? Or included in letters sent
to other scholars? Or what?

Intrigued,

Will Martin

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