How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? dancing on a needle's point occurs in an expository work by the English divine, William Sclater (1575-1626). In "An exposition with notes vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians" (1619), Sclater claimed that scholastic philosophers occupied themselves with such pointless questions as whether angels "did occupie a place; and so, whether many might be in one place at one time; and how many might sit on a Needles point; and six hundred such like needlesse points." Harrison proposes that the reason an English writer first introduced the "needle’s point" into a critique of medieval angelology is that it makes for
How to Build a Dinosaur the same time as "Jurassic Park IV", to serve as a scientific companion volume; however, the film was delayed. Horner's book, in hardcover form, was ultimately published by Dutton Penguin on March 19, 2009, without the accompaniment of the film. The book was initially published with the title "How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever". A paperback version was published by Plume on February 23, 2010, with the title "How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution". "Publishers Weekly" called the book "provocative but frustrating", writing that aside from the main concept, "Much