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Copernicus’s planetary models contain elements also found in the works of late medieval Islamic astronomers associated with the Maragha School, including the Tusi couple and Ibn al-Shatir’s models for the Moon and Mercury. On this basis many historians have concluded that Copernicus must have gotten his hands on these Maragha ideas somehow or other, even … Continue reading Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?
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38 - Did Copernicus steal ideas from Islamic astronomers?Wed, 29 Nov 2023
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37 - Operational Einstein: constructivist principles of special relativitySun, 23 Jul 2023
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36 - Review of Netz’s New History of Greek MathematicsTue, 11 Oct 2022 - 0h
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35 - The “universal grammar” of space: what geometry is innate?Fri, 20 May 2022 - 0h
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34 - “Repugnant to the nature of a straight line”: Non-Euclidean geometrySun, 20 Feb 2022 - 0h
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33 - Rationalism 2.0: Kant’s philosophy of geometryWed, 17 Nov 2021 - 0h
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32 - Rationalism versus empiricismSat, 18 Sep 2021 - 0h
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31 - Cultural reception of geometry in early modern EuropeSat, 10 Jul 2021 - 0h
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30 - Maker’s knowledge: early modern philosophical interpretations of geometryMon, 10 May 2021 - 0h
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29 - “Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometryWed, 10 Mar 2021 - 0h
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28 - Why construct?Wed, 20 Jan 2021
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27 - Created equal: Euclid’s Postulates 1-4Thu, 10 Dec 2020 - 0h
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26 - That which has no part: Euclid’s definitionsTue, 03 Nov 2020 - 0h
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25 - What makes a good axiom?Sun, 04 Oct 2020 - 0h
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24 - Consequentia mirabilis: the dream of reduction to logicTue, 08 Sep 2020 - 0h
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23 - Read Euclid backwards: history and purpose of Pythagorean TheoremThu, 30 Jul 2020 - 0h
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22 - Singing Euclid: the oral character of Greek geometrySun, 21 Jun 2020 - 0h
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21 - First proofs: Thales and the beginnings of geometryFri, 15 May 2020 - 0h
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20 - Societal role of geometry in early civilisationsSun, 29 Mar 2020 - 0h
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19 - Why the Greeks?Sun, 16 Feb 2020 - 0h
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18 - The mathematicians’ view of GalileoSat, 11 Jan 2020 - 0h
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17 - Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle agesTue, 03 Dec 2019 - 0h
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16 - More things Galileo didn’t do firstMon, 28 Oct 2019 - 0h
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15 - Galileo was the first to … what exactly?Sat, 21 Sep 2019 - 0h
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14 - Galileo and the ChurchThu, 15 Aug 2019 - 0h
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13 - Galileo’s theory of comets is hot airSun, 07 Jul 2019 - 0h
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12 - Phases of VenusSun, 02 Jun 2019 - 0h
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11 - Blemished sunSat, 04 May 2019 - 0h
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10 - The telescopeSat, 06 Apr 2019 - 0h
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9 - Heliocentrism before the telescopeSat, 09 Mar 2019 - 0h
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8 - Heliocentrism in antiquityMon, 11 Feb 2019 - 0h
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7 - Galileo’s theory of tidesFri, 18 Jan 2019 - 0h
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6 - Why Galileo is like NostradamusThu, 27 Dec 2018 - 0h
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5 - Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertiaMon, 10 Dec 2018 - 0h
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4 - The case against Galileo on the law of fallThu, 29 Nov 2018 - 0h
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3 - Galilean science in antiquity?Wed, 21 Nov 2018 - 0h
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2 - Mathematics versus philosophy, then and nowWed, 21 Nov 2018 - 0h
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1 - Galileo bad, Archimedes goodWed, 21 Nov 2018 - 0h
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