Notre Dame de Paris

Supposing the entity of the poet to be expressed by the number ten, it is certain that a chemist in analyzing. .. would find It to be composed of one part self-interest to nine parts of self-esteem. Gringoire s nine parts of self-esteem, swollen and Inflated by the breath of popular admiration, were in a state of prodigious enlargement, obliterating that almost imperceptible molecule of self-interest. — Victor Marie Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris, ca. 

The NMR tube replaced the test tube. This assertion echoes that by Victor Hugo when he claimed so perceptively, in Notre Dame de Paris, in the superb ceci tuera cela digression, that when Gutenberg invented movable types, the book killed the cathedral and its imagery, which had been so important earlier in educating Christians. 

FIGURE 19-13 Architecturalstylesvary widely around the world partly because of cultural differences, (a) A Japanese temple, (b) Notre Dame de Paris, and (c) the Taj Mahal. 

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