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38 - Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

Opinionated History of Mathematics

38 - Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

History of mathematics research with iconoclastic madcap twists

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38 - Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?

Wed, 29 Nov 2023
37 - Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativity

Sun, 23 Jul 2023
36 - Review of Netz’s New History of Greek Mathematics

Tue, 11 Oct 2022
35 - The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?

Fri, 20 May 2022
34 - “Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometry

Sun, 20 Feb 2022
33 - Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometry

Wed, 17 Nov 2021
32 - Rationalism versus empiricism

Sat, 18 Sep 2021
31 - Cultural reception of geometry in early modern Europe

Sat, 10 Jul 2021
30 - Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometry

Mon, 10 May 2021
29 - “Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry

Wed, 10 Mar 2021
28 - Why construct?

Wed, 20 Jan 2021
27 - Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4

Thu, 10 Dec 2020
26 - That which has no part: Euclid’s definitions

Tue, 03 Nov 2020
25 - What makes a good axiom?

Sun, 04 Oct 2020
24 - Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logic

Tue, 08 Sep 2020
23 - Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem

Thu, 30 Jul 2020
22 - Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometry

Sun, 21 Jun 2020
21 - First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometry

Fri, 15 May 2020
20 - Societal role of geometry in early civilisations

Sun, 29 Mar 2020
19 - Why the Greeks?

Sun, 16 Feb 2020
18 - The mathematicians’ view of Galileo

Sat, 11 Jan 2020
17 - Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages

Tue, 03 Dec 2019
16 - More things Galileo didn’t do first

Mon, 28 Oct 2019
15 - Galileo was the first to … what exactly?

Sat, 21 Sep 2019
14 - Galileo and the Church

Thu, 15 Aug 2019
13 - Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air

Sun, 07 Jul 2019
12 - Phases of Venus

Sun, 02 Jun 2019
11 - Blemished sun

Sat, 04 May 2019
10 - The telescope

Sat, 06 Apr 2019
9 - Heliocentrism before the telescope

Sat, 09 Mar 2019
8 - Heliocentrism in antiquity

Mon, 11 Feb 2019
7 - Galileo’s theory of tides

Fri, 18 Jan 2019
6 - Why Galileo is like Nostradamus

Thu, 27 Dec 2018
5 - Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia

Mon, 10 Dec 2018
4 - The case against Galileo on the law of fall

Thu, 29 Nov 2018
3 - Galilean science in antiquity?

Wed, 21 Nov 2018
2 - Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now

Wed, 21 Nov 2018
1 - Galileo bad, Archimedes good

Wed, 21 Nov 2018

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