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
Possibly the biggest ever upheaval in the history of optics was the emergence of the telescope at the end of the first decade of the seventeenth century, closely followed by that of the microscope. Although …
In this series we have been very much concerned with the fact that in all areas of practical mathematics–navigation, cartography, surveying, etc–England lagged well behind continental Europe and was very much playing catch up, during …
Having dealt with the advances in optics, dynamics, statics, and hydrostatics made during the sixteenth century, in this episode we turn to the advances in optics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, which means …