Science History

In 1457 B.C. at Megiddo, named in the Bible Derekh Hayam (Hebrew: דרך הים), was fought the first battle remembered by military history. The Egyptian Pharaoh Tuthmose III, at north of Mount…

In 1872 Charles Darwin completed what may be the first example of a prospective "single-blind" study of human perception of emotional expression. Through scrutiny of Darwin's previously unpublished…

Science, outside some in the climate community (*), is anti-authoritarian.   There is no voting to create a consensus in science, no appeals to authority - science is vulnerable every single day…

This must rank up there as the most bizarre holiday destination in the world. Trinity is the location of the first nuclear test by the Manhattan Project. The world's first plutonium bomb was…

Easter is the most important festival in the Christian calendar as it defines a number of theological doctrines. However, Easter has always been a movable feast which can take place on any date…

Baird : The Wonder Of Television The following article was scanned by me from "The Wonder Encyclopedia For Children"Odhams, 1933. Apart from minor adjustments to layout and removal of page references…

 Now here’s an interesting chap. The Göttingen Academy of Sciences [1] was founded in 1751 with Albrecht von Haller (1708 – 1777) [2] as the main driving force in the setting it up. …

The Royal Mail has launched a Special issue commemorating the 350th Anniversary of The Royal Society. Ten specially-commissioned stamps have been issued showing some of the most famous scientist in…

An Argument For Cross-Disciplinary Studies Lack of experience diminishes our power of taking a comprehensive view of the admitted facts. Hence those who dwell in intimate association with nature and…

Why did the Babylonians and the Greeks approach astronomy so differently? In my last post I quoted Toulmin and Goodfield from their history of dynamics and astronomy, The Fabric of the Heavens, where…