Category Archives: Book Reviews
How not to write about Renaissance mathematics
This is a book review. It is a review of Mark A. Peterson’s Galileo’s Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts (Harvard University Press, 2011) that I have to admit I’m writing with some reluctance. Why? I’m writing this review with some reluctance … Continue reading
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The Swerve is really a full-frontal crash.
Today we have a new guest post from regular commentator and Renaissance Mathematicus fan Baerista. Whereas I am an Englishman living in Germany who blogs in English Baerista is a German living in London who normally blogs in German. Today he … Continue reading
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Pictures of Isaac.
I have recently finished reading the book Recreating Newton1 by my Whewell’s Ghost co-blogger Rebekah ‘Becky’ Higgitt and I have decided to write a brief review of her efforts2. The book based on Ms Higgitt’s doctoral thesis deals with the … Continue reading
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Sometimes I despair!
I am preparing a semi-popular lecture on the history of the steam engine with special emphasis on James Watt and Matthew Boulton so I was very pleased when in a comment on my recent post on Denis Papin, Paul McFedries … Continue reading
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Sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar…
Today is the birthday of Franz Carl Achard (28th April 1753 – 1821) German experimental biologist, physicist and chemist who established the first ever production plant for the extraction of sucrose (that’s sugar!) from beets. The presence of extractable quantities … Continue reading
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Where’s the Author?
Well the book arrived this morning so all we need now is for the author to come by and sign it.
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A Reading List for Joel Hendon
Joel Hendon of the Birmingham Biblical Examiner is vexed by, the evolutionists, naturalists, atheists and such like who profess that they believe completely in the scientific causes of life and existence of matter, etc., when they have no science whatsoever … Continue reading
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Newton and the Counterfeiter: A Review Part 2.
Now Thom has written a book that is intended for popular consumption and has as I have noted above done an excellent job of it. In fact his work is so excellently researched and argued that I am going to … Continue reading
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Newton and the Counterfeiter: Part one: A review of a volume of popular history
Let us go direct to the crux of the matter, Thom Levenson has written an excellent book. An exciting, stimulating, light to read tale that sucks the reader into the fascinating social, political and financial world of London at the … Continue reading
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