Saturday, January 16, 2010
A review of Alan Boyle’s The Case for Pluto, which is readable and enjoyable. As he makes clear in the title, he favors a definition of a planet that would include Pluto, as well as an indeterminate number of yet-to-be-discovered objects orbiting our sun as well as other stars.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 01/16 at 10:50 PM
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Another history of science site in Philadelphia is the memorial sculpture to Nicolaus Copernicus. The sculpture was commissioned to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Copernicus’s birth.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 11/20 at 10:53 PM
Thursday, December 29, 2011
A recent article in The Economist on Luther prompted me to think about ephemeral astrological literature in early modern Europe. Here I suggest that we need to take this literature more seriously than we typically have.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 12/29 at 04:58 PM
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Hero or heretic? Peter Foges compares Rupert Sheldrake to Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Bruno.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 09/22 at 08:07 PM
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Unfortunately, the history of science is easily distorted or misleadingly presented to make point in the present.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 01/08 at 02:00 PM
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