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My ancient iMac[1] is displaying increasing signs of giving up the ghost and moving on to the great electro-junk yard in the sky. My daily confrontations with the spinning beach-ball of death are increasing in frequency and the number of time where it doesn’t cease to spin and I am forced to shut down and reboot are also increasing. I assume it is only a matter of time before I will attempt to turn on my loyal workhorse and the screen will simply remain blank; this actually happened with its predecessor. This of course means that I will have to invest in a new computer, preferably before the current one decides to depart forever.
I am a pensioner with a very basic state pension, for which I am very grateful, but which doesn’t even totally cover the basics in life. I supplement this with private tutoring and some other bits and pieces. I have little or no reserves and can, quite simply, not afford a new computer at the moment. I have some potential work lined up for the autumn, but in order to do that I will need a fully functioning computer and I also don’t think that I will earn enough through that to cover the full costs of a new computer.
All of this being the case I turn to you, the readers of the Renaissance Mathematicus. I have never charged for the constant stream of history of science writing that I have delivered up over the last eleven years and I hope that the Renaissance Mathematicus will remain free for its readers in the future. I am asking you to make a onetime contribution now if you wish to go on reading the episodes of my Emergence of Modern Astronomy series, (or are waiting for the dead tree version, for which I will also need a computer), my scintillating book reviews, my accounts of obscure Renaissance scientists, mathematicians, cartographers et al and my occasional HISTSCI_HULK stomps all over bad #histSTM, then you are going to have make a small donation towards a shiny new Renaissance Mathematicus computer.
If all the readers of the Renaissance Mathematicus would each donate just €1 then I would have enough to buy two computers with enough left over for a celebratory meal. I appeal to my readers to help me in this endeavour and each to contribute, as they are able and as they are willed. Unlike book authors asking for funds to publish, I can offer no incentives or prizes for particularly generous contribution other than to promise that as long as I am able I shall continue to entertain, stimulate and educate you to the best of my ability as the Renaissance Mathematicus and of course you will have my eternal thanks.
A small special appeal to all the authors, whose books, book chapters and papers I have fact checked for their history of science content in recent years. I couldn’t have done so without a computer and will not be able to do so in the future without one.
[1] Actually, in real world terms it’s not that old but in terms of computer generations it is positively stone age
My ancient iMac[1] is displaying increasing signs of giving up the ghost and moving on to the great electro-junk yard in the sky. My daily confrontations with the spinning beach-ball of death are increasing in frequency and the number of time where it doesn’t cease to spin and I am forced to shut down and reboot are also increasing. I assume it is only a matter of time before I will attempt to turn on my loyal workhorse and the screen will simply remain blank; this actually happened with its predecessor. This of course means that I will have to invest in a new computer, preferably before the current one decides to depart forever.
I am a pensioner with a very basic state pension, for which I am very grateful, but which doesn’t even totally cover the basics in life. I supplement this with private tutoring and some other bits and pieces. I have little or no reserves and can, quite simply, not afford a new computer at the moment. I have some potential work lined up for the autumn, but in order to do that I will need a fully functioning computer and I also don’t think that I will earn enough through that to cover the full costs of a new computer.
All of this being the case I turn to you, the readers of the Renaissance Mathematicus. I have never charged for the constant stream of history of science writing that I have delivered up over the last eleven years and I hope that the Renaissance Mathematicus will remain free for its readers in the future. I am asking you to make a onetime contribution now if you wish to go on reading the episodes of my Emergence of Modern Astronomy series, (or are waiting for the dead tree version, for which I will also need a computer), my scintillating book reviews, my accounts of obscure Renaissance scientists, mathematicians, cartographers et al and my occasional HISTSCI_HULK stomps all over bad #histSTM, then you are going to have make a small donation towards a shiny new Renaissance Mathematicus computer.
If all the readers of the Renaissance Mathematicus would each donate just €1 then I would have enough to buy two computers with enough left over for a celebratory meal. I appeal to my readers to help me in this endeavour and each to contribute, as they are able and as they are willed. Unlike book authors asking for funds to publish, I can offer no incentives or prizes for particularly generous contribution other than to promise that as long as I am able I shall continue to entertain, stimulate and educate you to the best of my ability as the Renaissance Mathematicus and of course you will have my eternal thanks.
A small special appeal to all the authors, whose books, book chapters and papers I have fact checked for their history of science content in recent years. I couldn’t have done so without a computer and will not be able to do so in the future without one.
[1] Actually, in real world terms it’s not that old but in terms of computer generations it is positively stone age
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