The first substantive post that I wrote on this blog, following a couple of introductory pieces explaining who I am and why I am blogging, was about the much maligned Jesuit astronomer and mathematicus Christoph Clavius educational reformer and friend of Galileo. I now invite later arrivals at RM to go back and see why one should count Clavius amongst the scientific good guys
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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”
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