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Category: history of science

February 9, 2021 history of science / long form / mathematics / philosophy of science / physics / science

The shape of things to come

Why did non-Euclidean geometry take so long to find its way into physics? (7700 words)

January 5, 2021 astronomy / history of science

On things that should never be forgotten

The eye can only reveal what the mind is prepared to see. (1470 words)

January 15, 2019 astronomy / history of science / long form / society

The weightlessness of knowledge

Does the citizen scientist have a long term future? It depends on the future of both the citizen and the scientist. (4000 words)

May 17, 2018 astronomy / history of science / long form / philosophy of science / physics / publications

Learning to see [Aeon, American Scientist]

One astronomer’s dimpled pie is another’s cratered moon. How can our mind’s eye learn to see the new and unexpected? (3900 words)

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What We Lose When We Don’t Look At The Night Sky [Wisconsin Public Radio]

An interview with Rob Ferret of Wisconsin Public Radio. The stars, Polynesian voyaging, human exploration of the solar system. It’s all here. (12 mins. listening time)

December 23, 2015 astronomy / history of science / long form / publications / society

Sky Readers [Aeon]

For most of human history, the stars told us where we were in space and time. Have we forgotten how to look up? (3600 words)

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