<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> I think there are 17 vermeers in existence. I remember seeing about six in Amsterdam, one at the Frick, and one at the Museum of the Legion of Honor in SF. Joanna Alexander Nekvasil wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid87psmhmi9p.fsf@localhost.localdomain"> <pre wrap="">Chris Brooke <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:chris.brooke@magdalen.oxford.ac.uk"><chris.brooke@magdalen.oxford.ac.uk></a> writes: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 24/1/06 03:37, "Chuck Grimes" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cgrimes@rawbw.com"><cgrimes@rawbw.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Anyway, has anybody read Israel's book on Spinoza? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Yes. Radical Enlightenment is superb. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> ... </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">And the book's been out for long enough now that the main lines of criticism of Israel's overall approach are reasonably focused: </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> ... </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">3. General overestimation of the importance of the Netherlands, a characteristic bias of somebody who has been a Netherlands specialist for many years. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Where are the other Vermeers? cheers AN ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>