On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 10:19:36PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: > Quoting Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca>: > >> The spanish word for "download" is "descartes" ? Weird, in >> english that's the name of a famous philosopher. > > Normally, I'm proud to be Swedish, but not when it comes to Descartes. > One of the sadest Swedish contributions to the history of science, is > that Descartes was invited to Stockholm by the Queen Christina, soon > caught a cold and died from pneumonia.
I wouldn't say that's sad -- he was being honored by royalty! Illness can happen anywhere, especially back then. I mean, it's not like she deliberately housed him in a drafty and damp room in her castle, right? :) We should probably take this to the devel-chat list. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
