historyofscience

179d

Beyond causality

In order to bridge the yawning gulf between the humanities and the sciences we must turn to an unexpected field: mathematics

By Gordon Gillespie

https://aeon.co/essays/to-better-understand-the-world-follow-the-paths-of-mathematics

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190d

Chemical laws

Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe

by Vanessa A Seifert

https://aeon.co/essays/the-neglected-laws-of-chemistry-and-why-they-matter?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0a874a1766-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-69b28dd3d9-72664972

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Periodic table by Mendeleev, 1871

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Periodic_table_by_Mendeleev,_1871.svg

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107d

Ideas ‘of pure genius’ – how astronomers have measured the Universe across history

by Terence Tao and Grant Sanderson

https://aeon.co/videos/ideas-of-pure-genius-how-astronomers-have-measured-the-universe-across-history

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Flammarion engraving, Paris 1888

Anonymous - Camille Flammarion, L'Atmosphère: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888), pp. 163.

The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion's L'Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid hemisphere, to look at the mysterious Empyrean beyond. The caption underneath the engraving (not shown here) translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..."

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