Thursday, December 31, 2009
Johannes Kepler, who was born on 27 December 1571, is the subject of a couple recent interesting articles. These articles are an opportunity to see how Kepler was typical of the early-modern European scholar, a person as interested in astronomy and optics (our notion of sciences) as theology and astrology.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 12/31 at 12:17 PM
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Monday, January 04, 2010
Today Google celebrates Isaac Newton’s birthday with a falling apple.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 01/04 at 10:15 AM
Sunday, March 21, 2010
A short Smörgåsbord of posts and articles from last week.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 03/21 at 08:51 AM
Sunday, March 28, 2010
This week’s roundup of posts includes a few good articles too. There were a number of good Ada Lovelace posts around, but rather than link to them all, I chose a couple that I liked and pointed to the Ada Lovelace site, which collected most of them.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 03/28 at 12:00 PM
Sunday, May 09, 2010
This week’s round up of posts is shorter than previous weeks, owning most likely to the vagaries of the academic year and end of semester burdens.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 05/09 at 10:57 PM
Monday, July 19, 2010
Continuing to explore the rich collections here in Philadelphia, this post looks at three textbooks edited by Georg Tannstetter, the Viennese astrologer/astronomer and personal physician to Emperor Maximilian I. Tannstetter’s texts are in The College of Physicians, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the American Philosophical Society.
Posted by Darin Hayton on 07/19 at 10:47 PM
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