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:When libraries run out of space, they "cull" their books. Doubtless some of them happen to be scientific books, e.g. out-of-date books. What happens to them? "'We must conceive of the library as a channel through which books pass on their way from the publisher to the incinerator,' the librarian G. Hardin declared in an edict issued in 1947"<ref>Brooks, Collette (1947) "So Many Books, So Little Space," ''The New York Times,'' October 26, 2002, p. 9</ref>, and, yeah, this was before paper recycling was common and, yeah, he was probably speaking literally and they probably were burned. Is that "just '''WRONG?'''"   

:When libraries run out of space, they "cull" their books. Doubtless some of them happen to be scientific books, e.g. out-of-date books. What happens to them? "'We must conceive of the library as a channel through which books pass on their way from the publisher to the incinerator,' the librarian G. Hardin declared in an edict issued in 1947"<ref>Brooks, Collette (1947) "So Many Books, So Little Space," ''The New York Times,'' October 26, 2002, p. 9</ref>, and, yeah, this was before paper recycling was common and, yeah, he was probably speaking literally and they probably were burned. Is that "just '''WRONG?'''"   

::Bad analogy. Galileo's books weren't burned because they were out of date. They were burned "pour encourager les autres" - it certainly worked for Descartes. Galileo no doubt vividly remembered the burning at the stake of Giordano Bruno for heresy in 1600.  

::Bad analogy. Galileo's books weren't burned because they were out of date. They were burned "pour encourager les autres" - it certainly worked for Descartes. Galileo no doubt vividly remembered the burning at the stake of Giordano Bruno for heresy in 1600. --[[User:Britinme|Britinme]] 15:39, 5 May 2007 (EDT)