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The Galileo Circus is in town (thonyc.wordpress.com)
8 points by Hooke on Sept 28, 2018 | past
The first calculating machine (thonyc.wordpress.com)
29 points by benbreen on Sept 21, 2018 | past | 8 comments
400 Years of the Third Law – An overlooked and neglected revolution in astronomy (thonyc.wordpress.com)
36 points by Hooke on May 29, 2018 | past | 12 comments
The path that the decimal number system took from India to medieval Europe (thonyc.wordpress.com)
173 points by cossatot on May 6, 2018 | past | 60 comments
As easy as 1,2,3… (thonyc.wordpress.com)
2 points by gpresot on May 3, 2018 | past
Born under a bad sign (thonyc.wordpress.com)
41 points by onuralp on March 26, 2018 | past | 2 comments
The first English professor of mathematics (thonyc.wordpress.com)
66 points by Hooke on Feb 7, 2018 | past | 8 comments
A Lady Logician (thonyc.wordpress.com)
66 points by Hooke on Oct 30, 2017 | past | 11 comments
Galileo and Heliocentricity: A Rough Guide (2014) (thonyc.wordpress.com)
41 points by Hooke on Oct 2, 2017 | past | 22 comments
Hyping the history of mathematics (thonyc.wordpress.com)
2 points by Hooke on Sept 19, 2017 | past
The Great Man Paradox (thonyc.wordpress.com)
80 points by Petiver on Sept 11, 2017 | past | 30 comments
Did Eratosthenes really measure the size of the earth? (thonyc.wordpress.com)
2 points by okket on June 30, 2017 | past
Telling the Time at Night (thonyc.wordpress.com)
37 points by Hooke on June 2, 2017 | past
Bringing the heavens down to earth: the early history of telescopes (thonyc.wordpress.com)
9 points by Hooke on May 22, 2017 | past | 1 comment
The problem with superlatives in the history of science (thonyc.wordpress.com)
22 points by diodorus on April 30, 2017 | past | 5 comments
Abraham Ortelius and the 16th century information age (2015) (thonyc.wordpress.com)
22 points by Vigier on April 14, 2017 | past
A Renaissance Artist-Engineer Icon – Vitruvian Man (thonyc.wordpress.com)
25 points by Hooke on April 6, 2017 | past | 2 comments
Multiplying and dividing with Hindu-Arabic numerals and with Roman ones (thonyc.wordpress.com)
103 points by Hooke on Feb 13, 2017 | past | 74 comments
Learning to cope with dysgraphia (2014) (thonyc.wordpress.com)
2 points by pepys on Jan 31, 2017 | past
Is Newtonian physics Newton’s physics? (2016) (thonyc.wordpress.com)
14 points by Hooke on Jan 20, 2017 | past | 14 comments
Some rather strange history of maths (thonyc.wordpress.com)
29 points by Hooke on Sept 1, 2016 | past | 12 comments
How do we kill off myths of science zombies? (thonyc.wordpress.com)
1 point by supermatou on June 9, 2016 | past
They knew it was round, damn it (thonyc.wordpress.com)
185 points by supermatou on May 25, 2016 | past | 78 comments
Isaac and the apple – the story and the myth (thonyc.wordpress.com)
31 points by Hooke on May 23, 2016 | past
Boole, Shannon and the Electronic Computer (thonyc.wordpress.com)
38 points by Hooke on May 1, 2016 | past | 3 comments
Holbein and the Nürnberg–Ingolstadt–Vienna Renaissance mathematical nexus (2015) (thonyc.wordpress.com)
1 point by Petiver on Feb 20, 2016 | past
The Orbital Mechanics of Johann Georg Locher, a 1600s Tychonic Anti-Copernican (thonyc.wordpress.com)
31 points by Hooke on Feb 11, 2016 | past
The Last Great Naked-Eye Astronomer (2012) (thonyc.wordpress.com)
16 points by Hooke on Feb 3, 2016 | past
Founders of Science? (thonyc.wordpress.com)
2 points by Hooke on Jan 29, 2016 | past
Andreas Osiander: The greatest villain in the history of science? (thonyc.wordpress.com)
31 points by Hooke on Jan 22, 2016 | past | 15 comments

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