Category Archives: Uncategorized
Out to Lunch!
Hurricane force winds allowing I shall be making a flying visit to England on the coming weekend. On Monday 19th December I shall be in London for the day on my way back to Germany and I will be lunching … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Multiplying the Renaissance way
At the always excellent Ptak Science Books blog John Ptak has a nice post about Renaissance multiplication 9876 X 6789 = 67048164 in which he was unable to work out the algorithm used to carry out the multiplication. In the … Continue reading
Filed under History of Mathematics, Renaissance Science, Uncategorized
History Blog Carnival: The All Saints Eclectic Edition.
Today the Renaissance Mathematicus is breaking out of its shell, at least temporarily, to explore new horizons outside of the narrow boundaries of the history of science in the wide-open waters of general history. A historian of science must of … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Christie’s Law
I think we need a new rule for Internet discussions on the history of science. I present Christie’s Law: In any Internet history of science discussion on the relationship between religion and science the first person to invoke the Galileo … Continue reading
Filed under Myths of Science, Uncategorized
Ich bin ein Gastblogger II: The wrong question
I’m an alien I’m a legal alien I’m an Englishman in Nürnberg Being an English historian of mathematics resident in Germany I have been often asked, over the years, by people who know a little about the history of mathematics, … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Jerry the Builder from the Waterfall
Today we don’t have an obscure Renaissance mathematician but rather an obscure Renaissance physician. Now on this blog this usually means that we are either in Leiden or Padua and today it’s the later. It’s an oft-repeated fact that Andreas … Continue reading
Filed under History of science, Renaissance Science, Uncategorized
A Life on the Ocean Waves.
The latest edition of The Giant’s Shoulders has emerged above the waves at Deep-Sea News under the special edition title of Leviathan’s Shoulders. Swim over and dive in.
Filed under History of science, Odds and Ends, Uncategorized
Bertie’s Dream
Today’s birthday boy is a mathematician but he is not from the Renaissance and anything but obscure, he is Betrand Arthur William 3rd Earl Russell known to the world of academia as Mr Russell and to his friends as Bertie. … Continue reading
Filed under History of Logic, History of Mathematics, Uncategorized
Circumnavigating the Globe
I was awoken this morning by the news (I have a radio alarm tuned to a news broadcast!) that 16 year old Jessica Watson had just completed her solo round the world sailing trip, thus becoming the youngest and most … Continue reading
