Daily Medieval

A 1675 letter by Isaac Newton has the line: "if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." ...

I mentioned yesterday that John of Salisbury was one of the medieval authors who understood  eclipses . He had a long career that I'll g...

William of Conches (1085-1154), as mentioned yesterday , wrote on Plato's Timaeus . The Timaeus was a popular work or analysis because,...

In 1620, Sir Francis Bacon published Novum Organum ("The New Organon," by which he meant a new interpretation of nature). In it, ...