on 3/30/07 10:21 AM, Stan Shebs at
stanshebs(a)earthlink.net wrote:
On the
contrary, the personal lives of famous scientists have always been
interesting to historians, and they've spent many hours in parish
registers and city archives to get the particulars.
Parish registers and city archives will only give you the what. The problems
begin when amateur psychologists try to come up with the why.
On the other hand, if a deceased subject was also a writer details in
the registers and archives could be useful to someone trying to track
down whom to ask for permission to use copyrighted material.
Ec