The Renaissance Mathematicus
An aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now lives mostly in the 16th century.
- By Thony Christie
- Based in Germany
- Roughly one post per week
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Most recent posts
Mathematics and literature ran on parallel tracks throughout much of my life. I fell in love with mathematics, or at least numbers, when I first entered primary school at the age four and I had …
In episode XIV of this series, we surveyed the final intellectual efforts within Europe to hold the knowledge accrued during antiquity upright for future generations in the work of such figures as Boethius (c. 480–524), …
In the years following the publication of De Magnete in 1600 and the death of William Gilbert in 1603 a dispute developed between two leading English magnetists, William Barlow (1544 – 1625) and Dr Mark …