Giant’s shoulders #20 is up, not at Lay Scientist as originally planned but at Skulls in the Stars. It’s a bumper crop so go read and learn!
Giant’s shoulders #20 is up, not at Lay Scientist as originally planned but at Skulls in the Stars. It’s a bumper crop so go read and learn!
Filed under History of science
If your philosophy of [scientific] history claims that the sequence should have been A→B→C, and it is C→A→B, then your philosophy of history is wrong. You have to take the data of history seriously.
John S. Wilkins 30th August 2009
Culture is part of the unholy trinity—culture, chaos, and cock-up—which roam through our versions of history, substituting for traditional theories of causation. – Filipe Fernández–Armesto “Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration”
Anders Ehrnberg on One Thousand and One Blog… | |
![]() | James Harrison on Renaissance Science – VII |
How a Jesuit Astrono… on The orbital mechanics of Johan… | |
tcbmcleish on One Thousand and One Blog… | |
Phillip Helbig on One Thousand and One Blog… |
Like a Greek god was nice and relevant.
The relationship of space exploration to past ‘explorers’ in the article on N.A.S.A was particulary well done I thought.