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Cartoons and Fables – How Cosmos Got the Story of Bruno Wrong
One of the joys of writing this blog is that I have a number of readers/commentators who are more intelligent, more knowledgeable, more erudite and above all more sensible than I. Every now and then I succeed in trapping, blackmailing, … Continue reading
Filed under History of Astronomy, Myths of Science, Renaissance Science
Bruno was not scientific
Jason Rosenhouse at EvolutionBlog has been reading Ronald Number’s Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths About Science and Religion and is unhappy about the following statement made by Numbers No scientist, to our knowledge, ever lost his life because … Continue reading
Filed under Mediaeval Science, Myths of Science, Renaissance Science
Renaissance Garbage – VI
This is the sixth and final episode in a series of discussions of selected parts of Paul Strathern’s The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare, (Atlantic Books, 2023). For more general details on both the author and his book see the first … Continue reading
Renaissance garbage – II
This is the second in a series of discussion of selected parts of Paul Strathern’s The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare, (Atlantic Books, 2023). For more general details on both the author and his book see the first post in this … Continue reading
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The Jesuits and science in the seventeenth century
One myth in the history of science that refuses to go away is that the Catholic Church was fundamental opposed to the modern science that emerged during the seventeenth century. They even according to one prevalent theory declared war on … Continue reading
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Renaissance Science – XXIV
It might be considered rational to assume that during the period that is viewed as the precursor to the so-called scientific revolution, which is itself viewed as the birth of modern science, that the level of esotericism and the importance … Continue reading
Musical, mathematical Minim, Marin Mersenne
In the seventeenth century, Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) was a very central and highly influential figure in the European intellectual and scientific communities; a man, who almost literally knew everybody and was known by everybody in those communities. Today, in the … Continue reading
Don’t major publishers use fact checkers or copyeditors anymore?
Trying to write a comprehensive history of science up to the scientific revolution in a single volume is the historian of science’s equivalent to squaring the circle. It can’t actually be done, it must fall short in various areas, but … Continue reading
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April 12th
The HISTSCI_HULK had just been settling down to the beautiful sunny morning and deciding, which of his Easter eggs he wanted to eat first (chocolate for breakfast on Easter is OK, isn’t it?), when he let out an ear shattering … Continue reading
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The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXV
One single occurrence in the year 1618 played a significant role in the history of astronomy, the appearance of a great comet. In fact there were three comets in 1618 but only one of them, a so-called great comet, made … Continue reading
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The Renaissance Mathematicus 