Tagged “history-of-science”
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thonyc.wordpress.com
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A Telescope Chronology
A history-of-science blogger lays out the real early timeline of the telescope, showing that Galileo neither invented it…
An Accidental Statistician
George E.P. Box tells how he stumbled into statistics while working on poison gas experiments in wartime Britain, a char…
Cybernetics Image Library
A living visual archive of cybernetics diagrams, drawings and photographs that you can shuffle, sort and search by sourc…
Darwin's Children Drew All Over On the Origin of Species
A short history piece on how Darwin's kids filled the back of his manuscript pages with doodles of pink birds and carrot…
distillatio.wordpress.com
Science
distillatio
A blog about medieval and Tudor alchemy and chemical technology, digging recipes for distillation, sealing vessels and s…
Eclipse Atlas
An atlas of solar eclipse path maps, from upcoming eclipses of 2026-2028 back through historical maps of eclipses since…
History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
A blog exploring the great diversity of language study past and present, with posts on the history and philosophy of lin…
History of Geology
A blog by geologist David Bressan on how geological ideas developed over time, with historical stories drawn from glacie…
History of Phrenology on the Web
A scholarly yet browsable archive on phrenology with an overview, organs of the brain, original texts, images, individua…
Isaac Newton's Works
The Newton Project's index of Newton's writings, from alchemy and mathematics to religion and science, with transcriptio…
Linnaeus and Race
An essay from the Linnean Society examining how Carl Linnaeus classified humans into varieties, what he actually wrote,…
List of Physical Visualizations
A chronological gallery of physical data visualizations, from ancient Incan quipus and 19th-century models to modern 3D-…
Making and Knowing Project
A digital edition of a sixteenth-century French artisan manuscript, with translations, annotations and experiments recon…
NukeSimulation
A 3D nuclear blast simulator on a globe: pick any city, set the yield and burst height, then see blast radius, thermal e…
Oliver Heaviside and the Theory of Transmission Lines
A clear technical note on how Heaviside reshaped electrical signaling theory, explaining waves, impedance and distortion…
Science History Institute
A museum and library preserving the stories of chemistry and life sciences, with the Distillations magazine of surprisin…
The Chymistry of Isaac Newton
Indiana University's digital edition of Newton's alchemical manuscripts, with transcriptions, symbol tables and tools fo…
The Phrenology Page
A long-running reference page on the discredited science of phrenology, with history, terminology in many languages and…
Tipping Point
A narrative podcast about the true story behind The Limits to Growth, the 1972 study that modeled collapse, how its youn…
Turning the Pages
Leaf through digital replicas of the Royal Society's treasures, page by page, including historic scientific manuscripts…
Vismaya
A blog on the history and philosophy of physics by G.V. Pavan Kumar, with posts that explain how key ideas in physics de…
Why Bell Labs Worked
An essay on how Bell Labs produced the transistor, information theory and Unix, and how management culture and funding c…
Wonders of Physics
A blog about physics, astronomy, and the history of science, written to promote physics and encourage a scientific tempe…
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