Thomas Gresham own house in Bishopsgate Street and the rents from the Royal Exchange should be vested in the Corporation of London and the Mercers Company, for the purpose of instituting a college in which seven professors should read lectures, one each day of the week, in astronomy, geometry, physic, law, divinity, rhetoric and music. Thus, Gresham College, the first institution of higher learning in London, came to be established in 1597. Gresham's Law (stated simply as: "Bad money drives out good") takes its name from him (although others, including the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, had recognised the concept for years) because he
Good Calories, Bad Calories "well-researched" and opines that Taubes’s conclusions are "somewhat startling yet surprisingly convincing." Journalism professor and food author Michael Pollan describes "Good Calories, Bad Calories" as "valuable" but believes that it "does not escape the confines of nutritionism." "New York Times" medical reporter Gina Kolata concluded that she was ultimately "not convinced" by Taubes’s arguments, writing that "the problem with a book like this one, which goes on and on in great detail […] is that it can be hard to know what has been left out." Laura Vanderkam reviewed the book somewhat negatively in "The American", the journal of the