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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Nürnberg: Pencil Capital of the World!
The title of this post is something I wrote in a comment on my previous post on Conrad Gesner. Nürnberg which is home-base to two of the world’s largest produces of drawing and writing instruments Faber-Castell and Staedtler Mars, both of whom … Continue reading
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Putting the lead in your pencil
Anyone who has regularly reads this blog (does anybody regularly read this blog?) will perhaps be aware of the fact that I have a soft spot for polymaths. There is an expression in German “Fachidiot”, which translates as “discipline idiot” … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Geology, History
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Three in one, and all alone
On Saturday I was in Cambridge, with the Cambridge Science Festival in full flow. I was there to be a panelist for an event called Can You Make A Difference? but during the afternoon I also took in the play Let Newton Be!, written … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th century, 18th century, history of science, Isaac Newton, theatre
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Giants’ Shoulders #34 update
Hi Sascha here again, that’s me relaxing after all the hard work of putting Giants’ Shoulders #33 together for your delectation. The nice Jai at From the Hands of Quacks has taken up my challenge and will be hosting Giants’ Shoulders … Continue reading
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History of Science through the eyes of a dog: Giants’ Shoulders #33
That’s me Sascha the canine philosopher doing some fieldwork hunting down the best history of science posts from the last month for the Giants’ Shoulders carnival. They said I had bitten off more than I could chew that a dog … Continue reading
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Not exactly Rocket Science
Before computers could generate predictions of how various spacecraft designs would fare, say, during a fiery reentry from space, NASA used some more basic methods. In selecting the ultimate design for the Mercury capsule, engineers used now-antiquated techniques. They dropped … Continue reading
Ich bin a Gastblogger III: Drinking from the same well
I’m an alien I’m a legal alien I’m an Englishman in Nürnberg1 As an English historian of mathematics living in Germany another question that I have had put to me several times by those with somewhat more knowledge of … Continue reading
Ich bin ein Gastbloggerin: A special post for International Women’s Day
My fellow guest blogger Penny Richards wrote in her post on Joyce Kaufman: Although Johns Hopkins didn’t welcome women students in those days… To celebrate International Women’s Day I thought I would draw the readers’ attention to another earlier women scientist … Continue reading
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Ich bin ein Gastblogger II: The wrong question
I’m an alien I’m a legal alien I’m an Englishman in Nürnberg Being an English historian of mathematics resident in Germany I have been often asked, over the years, by people who know a little about the history of mathematics, … Continue reading
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Some Pierre Duhem Online
There’s actually quite a bit of Pierre Duhem’s work available online; but it is very scattered. A number are available through Google Books. One limitation of Google Books, of course, is that Google Books entries are not universally available; in … Continue reading
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