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From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXII
As should be clear by now the renaissance in awareness and study of the works of Archimedes, which had been largely ignored in the medieval period, played a major role in the new developments in...
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A ENGLISH MAN BORN IN Y NORTH
GRAVEN BI HUMFRAY COLE GOLDSMITH A ENGLISH MAN BORN IN Y NORTH AND PEARTAYNING TO YE MINT IN THE TOWER. 1572 Despite the fact that he held an important position at the Royal Mint in the Tower of...
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Christmas Trilogy 2024 Bonus: The day that Simon died
The Ansbach court mathematicus Simon Marius died four hundred years ago on 26 December 1624 (O.S.). A contemporary of Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) at whose observatory in Prague he studied for a brief...
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Christmas Trilogy 2024 Part 3: The mysterious cosmos
Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) was born into what had once been a prominent family in the Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt, his grandfather Sebald had been mayor of the city. By the time he was born...
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From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXVI
In 2007, the 62nd General Assembly of the United Nations declared 2009 the International Year of Astronomy to mark the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a...
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An engraver and instrument maker, who founded a dynasty
We have seen how the Netherlander Thomas Gemini (c.1510–1562) and the English man Humfrey Cole (c. 1530–1591) established the profession of scientific or mathematical instrument maker in England...
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From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXIX
With his Ad Vitellionem Paralipomena, Quibus Astronomiae Pars Optica Traditur (Supplement to Witelo, in Which Is Expounded the Optical Part of Astronomy), published in 1604 and his Dioptrice,...
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From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XL
Until the publication of his Sidereus Nuncius in 1610, Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) was basically a nobody on the European scientific scene. Professor for mathematics, the lowest of the low in the...
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The Cosmographical Glasse
Cosmographia is a compositor of the words cosmos and graphia, whereby cosmos is the Latin form of the Greek kosmos meaning world or universe and graphia, which is derived from graphos which means...
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From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLII
As already mentioned, in the last episode in this series, mathematics did not in general play a significant role in the medieval, European universities. At best lip service was paid to the...
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