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Friday, December 14, 2012
The Rotating Earth
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Nicholas Oresme While re-examining Aristotle, Jean Buridan used observation and brainpower to anticipate some of the ideas we attribute...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Nicholas of Cusa
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American History has a charming anecdote that the head of the US Patent Office once declared there was nothing left to invent. The backgroun...
Monday, May 21, 2012
The Oxford Calculators
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The men before Galileo In the first half of the 1300s, a handful of scholars at Oxford University, most of whom were at Merton College, a...
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