Re: paleonet Defn of a Curator

[meor hakif <hakif23@xxxxxxxxx>]

Was the term curator in science given to ridicule
scientists, when collectors of rocks and bones were
thought mad and stupid then, or was there a real
reason :)

--- Eduard Reinhardt <ereinhar@mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 
> Definition of a "curator" from the Encyclopaedia
> Britannica, 1771.
> 
> CURATOR: Among civilians, a person regularly
> appointed to manage the 
> affairs of minors, or persons mad, etc.  See LAW.
> 
> LAW: Curators are given, not only to minors, but in
> general to everyone 
> who, either through defect of judgement, or
> unfitness of disposition, 
> is incapable of rightly managing his own affairs. 
> Of the first sort, 
> are idiots and furious persons.  Idiots are entirely
> deprived of the 
> faculty of reason.  This distemper of the furious
> person does not 
> conflict in the defect of reason, but in an
> overheated imagination, 
> which obstructs the application of reason to the
> purposes of life. ...
> 
> Dr. Eduard G. Reinhardt
> Assistant Professor
> School of Geography and Geology
> McMaster University
> Hamilton, Ontario
> Canada L8S 4K1
> 905-525-9140 ext 2759
> 905-546-0463
> 
> 


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