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we definitely need a periodic table of periodic tables
but would it contain itself ?
you're suggesting a periodic table of all periodic tables that do not contain themselves. sounds doable.
The Periodic Table of Tools
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#82The micrometers (you need one for every 25mm, e.g. 0-25mm, 25-50mm, 50-75mm, etc. is very interesting!).
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One of the great things about having a German speaking kid is the number of books that show all the entries in a given category (e.g. a huge book with hundreds of earth moving apparatus and the specific name of each) In America I could only get close with farm animals and guns.
Could you recommend some titles? I not only enjoy German thoroughness, but I am also tickled by the schlamminvordstogezah style of German tool naming.
Sorry, kid has long grown up and moved out. I guess I’ll get a second wave when grandkids start appearing. But any bookshop kids’ section will have heaps of them. IIRC Gerstenberg Verlag was a good source, but that was a while ago.
Also the Was ist Was series had the best explanations of how real stuff (locomotives, printing press, sexual reproduction, etc) works. If you can’t find the books I’m sure some of the videos are on YouTube.
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#84I feel like this could be better visualized in a tech tree.
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#85I guess I was expecting things like the wheel, lever, and pulley.
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#87As a former chemist and all-around maker, I love this and this bugs me all at once. I love the concept, but as others have pointed out, this is less a "periodic table" and more "grab bag of related things". You see these all over the place: foods, drinks, cars, etc. All table, no periodicity. Why are wrenches and drills strewn across three groups? Put the wrenches in one group, drills in the other. Impact drivers som…
Yes. Good thoughts but bottom line, it's trying to shoehorn something completely different into a form that makes it appear sophisticated. I think it just undercuts science. The periodic table is formed by important features of reality recognized in the elements, ultimately originating in quantum mechanics. Pretending that the structure applies to any capricious thing conveys an idea that the structure and reality is itself arbitrary.
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but would it contain itself ?
Obviously. It'd be one of the tables known to Harvard. Just leave enough room for the ones to be discovered.
> one of the tables known to Harvard
This has the cadence of a reference, but Google didn't help me. Am I missing something?
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Obviously. It'd be one of the tables known to Harvard. Just leave enough room for the ones to be discovered.
> one of the tables known to Harvard This has the cadence of a reference, but Google didn't help me. Am I missing something?
It's from The Elements, by Tom Lehrer (the final lyric of the song).
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#90This is really cool. He sure owns a lot of tools! You could make a pretty neat display of them in a museum. Way more interesting than endless paintings and porcelain.
There is such a thing where I live. A guy collected random tools, including tools from a dentist. It's a lot of household things and farm implements from the 19th and 20th centuries. His collection is now a museum. I can't find a good website unfortunately.