On: If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP?

[agumonkey]

too easy, last night I went to Gilbert De Magnete (original in latin no less) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33810?msg=welcome_stranger

[vanderZwan → agumonkey]

You joke (and cool find), but Maxwell's writings one the subject of electromagnetism are indeed a lot easier to grasp than some modern textbooks

[agumonkey → vanderZwan]

I don't doubt it