He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]

The Pines and Firs which grow upon the Sea-coaſts, are ſaid to have in the ſummer-time a kind of Roſinous Gum diſtilling from them, which falling into the Baltick and Bothnick Seas, and by the waves carryed to the Pruſſian ſhore, has given occaſion to ſome, to aſcribe to this the original of their Amber, which ſeems to be rather a coagulation of Petroleum.

Science perhaps never slid as far into neo-pantheism and neo-nihilism as Kelvin feared, and many physicists (and others) retained their confidence in the ether well into the 1920s and 1930s.

Do you have a fiver I could borrow? I can pay you back tomorrow.