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This is one of those super nerdy quotes to put up, too: > Laser... inter eximia naturae dona numeratum plurimis compositionibus inseritur... quas habeat utilit
by crdrost 5y ago
This is one of those super nerdy quotes to put up, too:
> Laser... inter eximia naturae dona numeratum plurimis compositionibus inseritur... quas habeat utilitates admixtum aliis, inmensum est referre.
> “The laser, among the most precious gifts of Nature, used in numerous medical applications: to describe all its uses in combination with other things, endless is the task.”
> — Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia XXII.il
There is a slight problem in that a lot of the people who read it and accept the misdirection that we're talking about modern lasers, seem to not know who Pliny the Elder is or when he wrote, so they miss the joke. :(
The [...] exclusions, I should say, are doing a lot of heavy lifting in creating the misdirection, with some creative translation mixed in (“medical applications” instead of “medicinal compositions” for example).