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Galileo’s Manuscripts: Still Learning the Lesson

By Bryan 10 August 2009 history, philosophy of physics

When I studied history of science, my teachers — especially Ken Manders and Paolo Palmieri — hammered two principles like drill sergeants: Always read the original manuscripts; Always pay attention…

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Did All Calorists Believe in Caloric?

By Bryan 25 February 2009 history, philosophy of physics

There is a lot of literature about how it is that important successes in science apparently stemmed from false belief. Belief in the existence of caloric is a common example:…

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Group Theory Of Your Spine

By Bryan 2 July 2008 history, mathematics, news

In more examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics, there now exists a robust application of group theory to the human spinal cord. Modeling the Human Spine. A few years…

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Could You Have Defended Galileo?

By Bryan 20 June 2008 history, philosophy of physics

The Problem. When Galileo died in 1642, there were still two competing schools of free fall. The Galilean School upheld Galileo’s law of free fall, which may be posed either…

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