40 Episodio

  1. Societal role of geometry in early civilisations

    Pubblicato: 29/03/2020

  2. Why the Greeks?

    Pubblicato: 16/02/2020

  3. The mathematicians’ view of Galileo

    Pubblicato: 11/01/2020

  4. Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages

    Pubblicato: 03/12/2019

  5. More things Galileo didn’t do first

    Pubblicato: 28/10/2019

  6. Galileo was the first to … what exactly?

    Pubblicato: 21/09/2019

  7. Galileo and the Church

    Pubblicato: 15/08/2019

  8. Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air

    Pubblicato: 07/07/2019

  9. Phases of Venus

    Pubblicato: 02/06/2019

  10. Blemished sun

    Pubblicato: 04/05/2019

  11. The telescope

    Pubblicato: 06/04/2019

  12. Heliocentrism before the telescope

    Pubblicato: 09/03/2019

  13. Heliocentrism in antiquity

    Pubblicato: 11/02/2019

  14. Galileo’s theory of tides

    Pubblicato: 18/01/2019

  15. Why Galileo is like Nostradamus

    Pubblicato: 27/12/2018

  16. Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia

    Pubblicato: 10/12/2018

  17. The case against Galileo on the law of fall

    Pubblicato: 29/11/2018

  18. Galilean science in antiquity?

    Pubblicato: 21/11/2018

  19. Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now

    Pubblicato: 21/11/2018

  20. Galileo bad, Archimedes good

    Pubblicato: 21/11/2018

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Cracking tales of historical mathematics and its interplay with science, philosophy, and culture. Revisionist history galore. Contrarian takes on received wisdom. Implications for teaching. Informed by current scholarship. By Dr Viktor Blåsjö.

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