The Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi is the work that the Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) is remembered for. ...
Continue Reading →Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation ...
Continue Reading →It is the culmination of Greek geometry and, in turn, provided a basis for the work of modern mathematicians and scientists such as Vieta, Descartes, ...
Continue Reading →The Harmony of the World, by Johannes Kepler, is not only a seminal work in the history of astronomy but a case study in the ...
Continue Reading →Giordano Bruno’s The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and ...
Continue Reading →Originally published in 1556, Agricola’s De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation — what today ...
Continue Reading →Giordano Bruno’s notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution ...
Continue Reading →Wind is everywhere and nowhere. Wind is the circulatory system of the earth, and its nervous system, too. Energy and information flow through it. It ...
Continue Reading →While it is responsible for today’s abundance of flat screens—on televisions, computers, and mobile devices—most of us have only heard of it in the ubiquitous ...
Continue Reading →This revealing study considers the remarkable alliance between chemistry and art from the late eighteenth century to the period immediately following the Second World War. ...
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