Marc Riddell wrote:
on 3/30/07 10:21 AM, Stan Shebs at stanshebs@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.
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