" So few went to hear him, and fewer understood him, that oftimes he did, for want of hearers, read to the walls. He usually stayed about half an hour; when he had no auditors he commonly returned in a quarter of that time."
-- Appraisal of a rather well known Cambridge lecturer in classical mechanics, circa 1690
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