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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

John Dee navigational advisor
After our longer discourse on the history of magnetic variation, we return today to the history of navigation in England during the second half of the sixteenth century. John Dee (1527–c. 1608) was a central …
On , by thonyc, 3,285 words
The most stupid, effin take on Newton, the apple, and the theory of gravity ever
My mate the HISTSCI_HULK, known to his friends as Hulky, was perusing our email website this morning, which as well as being the repository for our electronic mail is a sort of online newspaper, unfortunately …
On , by thonyc, 424 words
From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXV
At the beginning of the first episode of this series I wrote the following: In popular histories of science in Europe the history of physics is all too often presented roughly as follows, in antiquity …
On , by thonyc, 1,592 words