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2026 46

  1. Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus VII
  2. The evolution of a mathematical instrument – II
  3. Pause
  4. Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus VI
  5. Visions of alien planets from Copernicus to Star Wars
  6. Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus V
  7. Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus IVb
  8. The evolution of a mathematical instrument – I
  9. Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus IV
  10. Half-truths about Galileo and the telescope all dressed up in a kitschy graphic
  11. The astral sciences in the Ottoman Empire
  12. Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus III
  13. Oughtred vs. Delamain – a dispute over teaching methods and who invented the circular slide rule.
  14. No Ethan, Kepler did not change his mind!
  15. Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus II
  16. Reading the Mind of God
  17. Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus I.I
  18. Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus I
  19. Just some guy with a blog
  20. Scientific and Mathematical Instruments in the Early Modern Period
  21. 17
  22. Take it to the limit one more time – a history of calculus 0
  23. The century and a half search by the British authorities–from the founding of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich to the dissolution of the Board of Longitude–to find a method to determine longitude at sea.
  24. Ibn al-Haytham did not invent the Scientific Method
  25. A seventeenth-century teacher of geometry, who christened his son Euclid
  26. Al-Khwarizmi didn’t in any way originate, invent or create the algorithm
  27. Joseph Moxon–a man of many talents
  28. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LXIV
  29. A cosmos hanging from the living room ceiling
  30. Canus Academicus
  31. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LXIII
  32. The Prince and his mathematical practitioners
  33. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LXII
  34. History of science garbage dumps – two for the price of one
  35. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LXI
  36. Me & Country Joe
  37. Was Christianity necessary for the invention of science?
  38. England’s first printed-globe maker
  39. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LX
  40. Al-Ghazali did not put a stop to Islamic science
  41. Correctly orientated
  42. War of the Wheels – The Wheelie Bin vs. The Wheelchair
  43. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LIX
  44. The scientific instrument maker Ralph Greatorex and his connections in the mid 17th century English mathematical and scientific community.
  45. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LVIII
  46. Much Ado About Nothing

2025 58

  1. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LVII
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2025 Part 3: Pictures of Johannes
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2025 Part 2: Pictures of Charles
  4. Christmas Trilogy 2025 Part 1: Pictures of Isaac
  5. The Sun stood still
  6. A Christmas gift from the Gnomes of Ball Mansions.
  7. He inherited Richard Hakluyt’s life’s work.
  8. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LVI
  9. The life journey of a fascinating interdisciplinary scholar in the seventeenth century.
  10. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LV
  11. The leading scientific instrument maker in seventeen-century London
  12. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LIV
  13. Convalescence a progress report
  14. Three more books on the history of science in medieval Islamicate culture
  15. A nightmare that began with a cough
  16. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LIII
  17. Charles Whitwell – A credit to his master
  18. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LII
  19. The history of science in medieval Islamicate culture.
  20. A historian of science and New York Times reporter tries his hand at the 17th century Church and heliocentricity controversy and fails dismally.
  21. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – LI
  22. The Welsh instrument maker who didn’t fit the contemporary mould.
  23. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLIX
  24. Conflict what Conflict?
  25. A book you can count on
  26. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – L
  27. The English aristocratic bastard, who advised the Florentines on matters nautical and published the first maritime atlas by an English author.
  28. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLVIII
  29. How high and above what?
  30. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLVII
  31. A Promoter of Empire
  32. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLVI
  33. 16
  34. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLV
  35. An episodic journey through the history of mathematics in forty short essays.
  36. Mario Biagioli (1955–2025)
  37. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLIV
  38. High finance and higher education the legacy of Thomas Gresham
  39. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLIII
  40. Al-Khwarizmi didn’t invent the algorithm! A HISTCI_HULK STOMP for the weekend
  41. It’s too Eurocentric!
  42. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLII
  43. The Land Between Two Rivers
  44. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XLI
  45. The Cosmographical Glasse
  46. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XL
  47. History of maths for beginners!
  48. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXIX
  49. An engraver and instrument maker, who founded a dynasty
  50. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXVIII
  51. Books on the history of mathematics, some thoughts
  52. It can’t be that bad, after all it’s a Penguin – Part the Second
  53. ALL SYSTEMS GO! – STOP ORDER RESCINDED!
  54. Neurological Hijinks!
  55. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXVII
  56. It can’t be that bad, after all it’s a Penguin – Part the First
  57. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXVI
  58. On the 1st of Undecember

2024 63

  1. Christmas Trilogy 2024 Part 3: The mysterious cosmos
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2024 Part 2: Charles the mathematician
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2024 Bonus: The day that Simon died
  4. Christmas Trilogy 2024 Part 1: Isaac the alchemist
  5. There is a season, turn, turn, turn…
  6. Christmas is coming and with it comes the Renaissance Mathematicus Christmas Trilogy 2024
  7. A ENGLISH MAN BORN IN Y NORTH
  8. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXV
  9. Spaces of knowledge production in London Town in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  10. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXIV
  11. London’s first commercial instrument maker came from the Netherlands.
  12. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXIII
  13. Picturing the skies
  14. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXII
  15. The first English Copernican
  16. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXI
  17. Luna mumbo jumbo
  18. Galileo Galilei vs The Holy Roman Catholic Church – Round: 5555555555…………
  19. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXX
  20. A gentleman of Kent
  21. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXIX
  22. Describing the world with mathematics.
  23. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXVIII
  24. The Man from Wales who founded the English School of Mathematics
  25. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXVII
  26. Johannes Kepler’s preoccupation with the concept of harmony.
  27. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXVI
  28. John Dee navigational advisor
  29. The most stupid, effin take on Newton, the apple, and the theory of gravity ever
  30. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXV
  31. A monumental astronomy tome from the seventeenth century
  32. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXIV
  33. Magnetic Variations – X Mapping the variation
  34. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXIII
  35. Do you still count on your fingers?
  36. XV
  37. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXII
  38. How not to write history of science – Episode 1,000,000
  39. Magnetic Variations – IX It varies over time!
  40. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXI
  41. Mathematics and literature, really?
  42. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XX
  43. Magnetic Variations – VIII Magnetists at War
  44. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XIX
  45. Little things that made a big impact.
  46. Origins of the astrolabe
  47. Even those who know history are doomed to repeat it!
  48. Hiatus replay!
  49. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XVIII
  50. Magnetic Variations – VII One author, two authors, three authors, more
  51. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XVII
  52. Politicians (not) taking advice from experts in 19th-century Britain.
  53. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XVI
  54. Magnetic Variations – VI De Magnete
  55. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XV
  56. The story of a drum
  57. If you can’t define science or the scientific method, how can you know what science is and how to do it?
  58. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XIV
  59. Magnetic Variations – V William Gilbert
  60. Hubble telescope and Leeuwenhoek bollocks from NdGT
  61. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XIII
  62. HISCTSCI_HULK reporting for duty – A history of science and technology cluster fuck!
  63. Simon Marius a wannabee!? – STOMP STOMP STOMP…

2023 72

  1. Christmas Trilogy 2023 Part 3: A picture worth a thousand words
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2023 Part 2: Charles the genial host
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2023 Part 1: Whose shoulders?
  4. Welcome to a new Solar Cycle
  5. The Sleepwalkers: To read or not to read that is the question?
  6. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XII
  7. Magnetic Variations – IV William Barlow
  8. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XI
  9. The Red Line has gone!
  10. Hiatus Interruptus!
  11. Hiatus!
  12. Primary sources
  13. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – X
  14. Magnetic Variations – III Robert Norman
  15. Jim Bennett (1947–2023) authority par excellence on the history of scientific instrument.
  16. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – IX
  17. Science vs Religion? Science with Religion? Science without Religion? Religion without Science? Or simply a cuddle muddle of numerous variations?
  18. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – VIII
  19. Magnetic Variations – II The Borough Brothers
  20. Twas on a Tuesday morning that the first email it came… A tale of Brexit Britain and a book
  21. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – VII
  22. Incorrect casual assumptions
  23. She sought it here, she sought it there, she found elusive longitude everywhere
  24. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – VI
  25. Magnetic Variations – I Setting the scene
  26. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – V
  27. Flat Moon, I saw you skimming the skies…[1]
  28. Around the world in 312 pages
  29. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – IV
  30. The equestrian country gentleman, who turned his hand to navigation.
  31. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – III
  32. When is an algorithm not an algorithm?
  33. A university or not a university that is the question?
  34. Oh, dear!
  35. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – II
  36. The first rule is of a good Navigator.
  37. From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – I
  38. Finding your way underground
  39. Renaissance Garbage – VI
  40. 14
  41. Galileo’s house arrest.
  42. The Seaman’s Secrets
  43. Owen Gingerich (1930–2023)
  44. Telescopic bollocks from NdGT
  45. Renaissance garbage ­– V
  46. Counting the people
  47. Renaissance garbage ­– IV
  48. A cosmologist screws up the history of cosmology
  49. Renaissance garbage ­– III
  50. Correcting navigational errors, the Wright way
  51. Renaissance garbage ­– II
  52. It’s elementary dear readers
  53. Renaissance garbage ­– I
  54. Artificial Bullshit!
  55. Horrocks Bollocks!
  56. Ptolemy the pagan
  57. Renaissance Science – LII
  58. A masterclass in wide-ranging narrative history
  59. Renaissance Science – LI
  60. The Renaissance Mathematicus has lost a good friend.
  61. Mathematicall Lecturer to the Citie of London
  62. Renaissance Science – L
  63. Leonardo and gravity
  64. Temporarily closed
  65. Disharmony of the Spheres
  66. Finding things in books
  67. Renaissance Science – XLIX
  68. Starting off Fibonacci year…
  69. An inventor of instruments
  70. Renaissance Science – XLVIII
  71. God made all things by measure, number and weight[1]
  72. Martin Davis (1928–2023)

2022 62

  1. Christmas Trilogy 2022 Part 3: Portrait of the Mathematician as a Pet Dog
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2022 Part 2: A Portrait of the Mathematician as a Young Man
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2022 Part 1: The amicable Isaac
  4. It’s Trilogy time again
  5. The turning point
  6. Renaissance Science – XLVII
  7. “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.”
  8. On the road to recovery?
  9. Shit Happens!
  10. THE MATHEMATICAL IEVVEL
  11. Renaissance science – XLVI
  12. You Are History
  13. The Jesuits and science in the seventeenth century
  14. Renaissance science – XLV
  15. Beinecke Library Redux: From Bad to Worse!
  16. Not with a bang but a whimper
  17. I expect better of you Beinecke
  18. Renaissance science – XLIV
  19. Vision, Seeing Better, Seeing Further
  20. Renaissance science – XLIII
  21. Death don’t have no mercy.
  22. Why North?
  23. Renaissance science – XLII
  24. History of science is global history
  25. Renaissance science – XLI
  26. The Wizard Earl’s mathematici
  27. Renaissance science – XXXX
  28. The sixteenth century dispute about higher order algebraic equations and their solution
  29. Renaissance science – XXXIX
  30. Mathematician, astrologer, conjurer!
  31. Renaissance science – XXXVIII
  32. Astrology, data, and statistics
  33. Renaissance science – XXXVII
  34. 13
  35. The swashbuckling, philosophical alchemist
  36. Renaissance science – XXXVI
  37. Around the World in One Thousand and Eighty-three Days
  38. Is he Moonstruck?
  39. Renaissance science – XXXV
  40. Scotland’s premier topographer
  41. Renaissance science – XXXIV
  42. Illuminating the Middle Ages
  43. Rants, Rage, Rudeness, and Respect
  44. Renaissance science – XXXIII
  45. NIL deGrasse Tyson knows nothing about nothing
  46. Renaissance science – XXXII
  47. A Clock is a Thing that Ticks
  48. Renaissance science – XXXI
  49. A terrible fortnight for the HISTSCI_HULK
  50. Renaissance science – XXX
  51. Chronology, history, or prophecy?
  52. Renaissance science – XXIX
  53. The demise of the occult sciences
  54. Renaissance science – XXVIII
  55. Occult studies towards a modern approach.
  56. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG…
  57. Renaissance science – XXVII
  58. The black sheep of the Provence-Paris group
  59. STOMP. STOMP, STOMP … KEPLER DID WOT!
  60. Renaissance science – XXVI
  61. STOMP, STOMP, STOMP … NEWTON DID WOT!
  62. The Epicurean mathematician

2021 65

  1. Christmas Trilogy 2021 Part 3: Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2021 Part 2: He was the author of rambling volumes on every subject under the sun?
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2021 Part 1: The evolving views of the Last of the Magicians
  4. Winter solstice comes but once a year and with it comes the Renaissance Mathematicus New Year
  5. The days of my years
  6. Renaissance Science – XXV
  7. OHMS or everything you wanted to know about the history of trigonometry and didn’t know who to ask
  8. We plumb the depths of boundless history of science stupidity
  9. Renaissance Science – XXIV
  10. The astronomical librarian
  11. Renaissance Science – XXIII
  12. Would you like a new body for that brain, sir?
  13. Renaissance Science – XXII
  14. The amateur, astronomical, antiquarian aristocrat from Aix
  15. Renaissance Science – XXI
  16. Putting women back into the history of science
  17. Not just an elder sister
  18. Renaissance Science – XX
  19. Internet Superstar, who are you, what do you think you are?
  20. Musical, mathematical Minim, Marin Mersenne
  21. Renaissance Science – XIX
  22. Hospital!
  23. The social, cultural, and political dimensions of time
  24. Renaissance Science – XVIII
  25. I do wish people wouldn’t post things like this
  26. A seventeenth century Jesuit, who constructed his own monument and designed the first(?) ‘auto-mobile’.
  27. Renaissance Science – XVII
  28. Martin who?
  29. Renaissance Science – XVI
  30. The seventeenth-century Chinese civil servant from Cologne
  31. The Renaissance Mathematicus tries his luck as YouTube Influencer
  32. It’s Galileo time again!
  33. Renaissance Science – XV
  34. Isaac goes to town
  35. Renaissance Science – XIV
  36. They also serve…
  37. Renaissance Science – XIII
  38. Divining the future in the past
  39. Renaissance Science – XII
  40. Twelve
  41. The deviser of the King’s horologes
  42. Renaissance Science – XI
  43. Don’t major publishers use fact checkers or copyeditors anymore?
  44. Renaissance Science – X
  45. An eighteenth-century cartographical community in Nürnberg
  46. Renaissance Science – IX
  47. Kill or Cure!
  48. Renaissance Science – VIII
  49. The alchemist, who became a cosmographer
  50. Renaissance Science – VII
  51. One Thousand and One Blog Posts
  52. Tracking the alchemical gospel through Medieval and Early Modern England
  53. Renaissance Science – VI
  54. Alphabet of the stars
  55. Renaissance Science – V
  56. A flawed survey of science and the occult in the Early Modern Period
  57. Renaissance Science – IV
  58. To simplify is to falsify; falsification is used to simplify
  59. Renaissance Science – III
  60. Renaissance Science – II
  61. The man who printed the world of plants
  62. Renaissance Science – I
  63. Reading Euclid
  64. There’s more to reading than just looking at the words
  65. Charles not Ada, Charles not Charles and Ada, just Charles…

2020 70

  1. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part LII
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2020 Part 3: The peregrinations of Johannes K
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2020 Part 2: Charles brightens up the theatre
  4. Christmas Trilogy 2020 Part 1: Where did all that money come from Isaac?
  5. Wot no new blog post, but it’s Wednesday
  6. The solar year ends and starts with a great conjunction
  7. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part LI
  8. A book is a book is a book is a book
  9. Illuminating medieval science
  10. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part L
  11. A master instrument maker from a small town in the Fränkischen Schweiz
  12. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLIX
  13. You can con all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t con all of the people all of the time. However, you can con enough people long enough to cause a financial crisis.
  14. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLVIII
  15. “A sea of wild, woolly thinking!”
  16. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLVII
  17. Video-menu launched on the Marius-Portal
  18. A book or many books?
  19. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLVI
  20. Astrology in the age of Newton
  21. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLV
  22. It was forty years ago today…
  23. A Different Royal Society
  24. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLIV
  25. Microscopes & Submarines
  26. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLIII
  27. A scientific Dutchman
  28. T’would appear so!
  29. Keep the Renaissance Mathematicus Online!
  30. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLII
  31. Galileo was insufficiently woke?
  32. Giambattista della Porta the most polymathic of all Renaissance polymaths?
  33. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XLI
  34. Chilli 19.02.2006–27.07.2020
  35. Our medieval technological inheritance.
  36. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XL
  37. Oh really, might as well pack up and go home then.
  38. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXIX
  39. We just don’t know!
  40. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXVIII
  41. Mathematics and natural philosophy: Robert G socks it to GG
  42. Keith Tippett (25 August 1947 – 14 June 2020)
  43. Eleven
  44. Another Negative Review
  45. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXVII
  46. Galileo sources: a starter kit
  47. How to create your own Galileo
  48. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXVI
  49. A uniform collection of maps should have been a Theatre but became an Atlas instead but it might have been a Mirror.
  50. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXV
  51. Doctor, doctor give me the news…
  52. The Electric Showman
  53. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXIV
  54. Annus mythologicus
  55. April 12th
  56. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXIII
  57. How Renaissance Nürnberg became the Scientific Instrument Capital of Europe
  58. 3 into 2 does go!
  59. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXII
  60. War, politics, religion and scientia
  61. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXXI
  62. My name is Bond, Jamie Bond.
  63. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXX
  64. It’s all a question of angles.
  65. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXIX
  66. Mathematics at the Meridian
  67. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXVIII
  68. Stylish writing is not necessarily good science
  69. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXVII
  70. The Swinging 1660s

2019 67

  1. Christmas Trilogy Part 3: The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXVI
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2019 Part 2: Babbage, Airy and financing the Difference Engine.
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2019 Part I: Would the real Mr Newton please stand up?
  4. The Renaissance Mathematicus Christmas Trilogies explained for newcomers
  5. Happy Solstice!–Happy New Year!
  6. Time
  7. Both sides of history: Some thoughts on a history of science cliché
  8. Tis the season to be jolly
  9. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXV
  10. Physicians to the fore – creating a new medical hierarchy in the Early Modern Period
  11. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXIV
  12. On Becoming German
  13. There is no year zero!
  14. Finding your way on the Seven Seas in the Early Modern Period
  15. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXIII
  16. The Royal Society really needs to work on its history of the telescope
  17. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXII
  18. Calculus for the curious
  19. Why, FFS! why?
  20. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXI
  21. Mathematical aids for Early Modern astronomers.
  22. Robert Hunter (June 23 1941–September 23 2019)
  23. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XX
  24. The role of celestial influence in the complex structure of medieval knowledge.
  25. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XIX
  26. Revealing the secrets of the fire-using arts
  27. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XVIII
  28. A book for lunatics
  29. If you can’t tell your Cassini from your Huygens then you shouldn’t be writing about the history of astronomy.
  30. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XVII
  31. Vienna and Astronomy the beginnings.
  32. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XVI
  33. Mathematics or Physics–Mathematics vs. Physics–Mathematics and Physics
  34. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XV
  35. Chilli’s story
  36. Kepler was wot, you don’t say?
  37. Everything you wanted to know about Simon Marius and were too afraid to ask – now in English
  38. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XIV
  39. The Copernican Revolution 101
  40. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XIII
  41. Ten
  42. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XII
  43. The House of Wisdom is a Myth
  44. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XI
  45. Unsound History of the Sound of Space
  46. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part X
  47. Hagiography without context – how not to celebrate a historical figure
  48. A disservice to the history of Islamic Astronomy
  49. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part IX
  50. Renaissance Heavy Metal
  51. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part VIII
  52. History of science on the Internet – the gift that keeps giving
  53. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part VII
  54. Who created the first scientific map of the moon? – I expect better of the British Library
  55. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part VI
  56. Nit-picking – Authors who should know better
  57. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part V
  58. An open letter to an author
  59. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part IV
  60. An important 13th-century book on optics
  61. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part III
  62. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part II
  63. Matthew Flinders and the naming of Australia
  64. The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part I
  65. You shouldn’t believe everything you read
  66. Hypatia – What do we really know?
  67. Galileo’s the 12th most influential person in Western History – Really?

2018 78

  1. Halley & Hevelius
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2018 Part 3: Johannes’ battle with Mars
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2018 Part 2: A danseuse and a woven portrait
  4. Christmas Trilogy 2018 Part 1: The Harmonic Isaac
  5. Christmas at the Renaissance Mathematicus – A guide for new readers
  6. It’s Solstice Time Again!
  7. Internalism vs. Externalism?
  8. The Jesuit Mirror Man
  9. Printing the Hindu-Arabic numbers
  10. The Seven Learned Sisters
  11. Cosmographer to a Grand Duke and a Pope
  12. Carl Sagan Skewered
  13. Books about the book
  14. If you’re going to lecture others on the need to learn history then it pays to get your own history right.
  15. Don’t criticise what you don’t understand!
  16. NO, SIMPLY NO!
  17. Apples & Pears – comparing print technologies
  18. A Newtonian Refugee
  19. Two Greek scholars butting heads in the Renaissance and the consequences for astronomy
  20. Monsieur Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande et Les Dames
  21. Science, War and Pestilence
  22. The Renaissance Mathematicus – A users guide
  23. The Galileo Circus is in town
  24. The telescope – claims and counterclaims
  25. The first calculating machine
  26. Today in something is wrong on the Internet
  27. Saxton and Speed two early Elizabethan cartographers and the Flemish influence
  28. A sixteenth century bestseller by an amateur cosmographer
  29. Maximilian and the Mathematici–astrology as political propaganda
  30. Renaissance mathematics and medicine
  31. The Bees of Ingolstadt
  32. Tycho’s last bastion
  33. Spicing up the evolution of the mathematical sciences
  34. Does the world really need another Galileo hagiography?
  35. A seventeenth century picture from Nürnberg
  36. Hold on it’s coming
  37. Sobel’s five books
  38. Some good Copernican mythbusting
  39. Michael Mästlin: not just Kepler’s teacher
  40. California!
  41. Flying!
  42. The comet huntress
  43. A multi-functional book for a multi-functional instrument
  44. Imre and me – a turning point
  45. History of astronomy – reading the classics
  46. Getting Hooke wrong!
  47. My #histSTM Internet family
  48. Taking some time off!
  49. Publish and Perish
  50. Fremdgehen
  51. 400 Years of The Third Law–An overlooked and neglected revolution in astronomy
  52. “…like birds in the air and fish in the sea.”
  53. As easy as 1,2,3…
  54. The influence of a Renaissance mathematics teacher.
  55. Alea iacta est
  56. Taking the airs.
  57. From decimal fractions to sand yachts – the unbelievably fertile mind of Simon Stevin
  58. Send me back to Silicon Valley II – Gratitude
  59. Send me back to Silicon Valley
  60. Getting Galileo wrong yet again
  61. Marine chronometer, lunar distance method or something else altogether?
  62. Dangerous Twaddle
  63. Like father like son
  64. The Prince and Astronomer
  65. Who cares about facts? – Make up your own, it’s much more fun!
  66. On’t Moor
  67. Conversations in a sixteenth century prison cell
  68. Galileo & Roberto
  69. Not so much a book review more a WHAT THE F…
  70. Exposing Galileo’s strawmanning
  71. Reading in a hospital bed
  72. The first English professor of mathematics
  73. No he didn’t, no they didn’t and no it wasn’t.
  74. The truth obscured
  75. On this day…
  76. Isaac Beeckman – candle maker, hydro-engineer, schoolteacher, lens grinder, natural philosopher…
  77. Really! – Did the artist have a Tardis?
  78. Andromeda – From nebula to galaxy

2017 70

  1. Christmas Trilogy 2017: Bonus!
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2017 Part 3: Kepler’s big book
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2017 Part 2: Charles takes a trip to Turin
  4. The Trilogies of Christmas Past
  5. Christmas Trilogy 2017 Part 1: Isaac the Imperator
  6. Happy New Orbit!
  7. Not a student god dammit!
  8. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible
  9. Observing for the long haul
  10. History of the little things
  11. Juggling information
  12. An hour forwards, an hour back
  13. The Albrecht Dürer or should that be the Bernhard Walther House?
  14. Men of Mathematics
  15. Getting names right is rather important in the history of science
  16. History of science that had this (pedantic) historian grinding his teeth in the last week.
  17. Did Isaac leap or was he pushed?
  18. Can we please stop (mis)quoting Albert on Emmy, it’s demeaning?
  19. A Lady Logician
  20. The history of mathematics is not that simplistic.
  21. Galileo, The Church and that ban
  22. Hyping the history of mathematics
  23. The Great Man paradox – A coda: biographies
  24. The Great Man paradox
  25. “Within the stress of Research” – A collaborative composition with apologies to Paul Simon
  26. A mini-pre-vacation rant roundup
  27. School days
  28. American eclipse tourism in the nineteenth century
  29. Journalists getting the facts wrong in the 19th century
  30. The House of Blaeu vs.The House of Hondius – The Battle of the Globes and Atlases
  31. A very special book
  32. The West’s intellectual birthright!
  33. A very innovative early scientific printer/publisher
  34. All at sea
  35. Did Eratosthenes really measure the size of the earth?
  36. The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
  37. Why doesn’t he just shut up?
  38. “One man takes the credit, one man takes the blame…”
  39. “I went on holiday and I haven’t gone back home yet”
  40. Open shelved serendipity
  41. Recipes in the Wild By Paul Engle June 1, 2017
  42. Telling the time at night
  43. In history getting labels right is important
  44. Perpetuating the myths addendum – ‘The Copernican Shock
  45. Perpetuating the myths
  46. Bringing the heavens down to earth
  47. One line to rule them all
  48. The problem with superlatives
  49. The Man from Nowhere
  50. Measure for measure
  51. A birthday amongst the stars
  52. A Renaissance artist-engineer icon – Vitruvian Man
  53. Has The Renaissance Mathematicus gone over to the dark side?
  54. Something personal – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  55. On an excursion
  56. Happy Birthday Conrad – #GesnerDay 2017
  57. Friends – #GesnerDay
  58. Prelude to Conrad Gesner Day
  59. The poetic astronomer
  60. Sorry Caroline but you were not the first, Maria was
  61. An orb by any other name would circle as smoothly
  62. Conrad Gesner Day 2017
  63. Not German but also not Polish
  64. The problem with Jonathan Jones and #histSTM
  65. The widespread and persistent myth that it is easier to multiply and divide with Hindu-Arabic numerals than with Roman ones.
  66. The vexed problem of nationality in the history of science
  67. Books
  68. Why Mathematicus?
  69. He fought for his mother
  70. Two views of the celestial spheres

2016 55

  1. Christmas Trilogy 2016 Part 3: The English Keplerians
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2016 Part 2: What a difference an engine makes
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2016 Part 1: Is Newtonian physics Newton’s physics?
  4. An anniversary
  5. I was robbed (twice)! – Vague ramblings on rites of passage, anniversaries, calendrics and the human desire to control time – on the occasion of the winter solstice.
  6. Werner von Siemens and Erlangen
  7. I wish a certain (tv) star would think before he tweets
  8. History (of Science) Books by Women
  9. A Herschel comes seldom alone.
  10. Whilst I was away
  11. Never say Never!
  12. Another public service announcement
  13. A public service announcement
  14. Why there weren’t any scientists before the late nineteenth century.
  15. New lecturing attire
  16. A spirited defence
  17. Some rather strange history of maths
  18. Uccello and the Problem of Space
  19. Not a theology student
  20. Getting Kepler wrong
  21. Words matter
  22. A Rant Roundup!
  23. Not an expert
  24. If you are going to blazon out history of science ‘facts’ at least get them right
  25. He died fighting for his King
  26. The Goddess, her husband and his lovers
  27. Seven
  28. How do we kill off myths of science zombies?
  29. How Chemistry came to its first journal – and a small-town professor to lasting prominence
  30. The Earth was definitely not flat in the Middle Ages
  31. Galileo Super Star – Galileo Galilei to get Hollywood biopic
  32. Repeat after me! – They knew it was round, damn it!
  33. Bertrand Russell did not write Principia Mathematica
  34. Isaac and the apple – the story and the myth
  35. Tracking the Messenger of the Gods
  36. Boole, Shannon and the Electronic Computer
  37. The Astrolabe – an object of desire
  38. DO IT!
  39. The Huygens Enigma
  40. Well no, actually he didn’t.
  41. A bit on the side
  42. The Reformation, Astrology, and Mathematics in Schools and Universities.
  43. Retraction of a Retraction – Turns out I wasn’t wrong after all!
  44. I WAS WRONG!
  45. It’s the wrong telescope.
  46. Blogging Hiatus
  47. We’re British not European – Really?
  48. Christoph and the Calendar
  49. History of Science for Kids
  50. Scientists and Saints’ Days
  51. The orbital mechanics of Johann Georg Locher a seventeenth-century Tychonic anti-Copernican
  52. The Arch-Humanist
  53. A misleading illustration.
  54. Founders of science?
  55. How papermaking crossed the Alps

2015 62

  1. Just another day
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2015 Part 3: Roll out the barrel.
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2015 Part 2: Understanding the Analytical Engine.
  4. Christmas Trilogies!
  5. Christmas Trilogy 2015 Part 1: The famous witty Mrs Barton
  6. The greatest villain in the history of science?
  7. Mensis or menstruation?
  8. Aristotle Killer of Science!
  9. A misleading book title that creates the wrong impression
  10. Hans Holbein and the Nürnberg–Ingolstadt–Vienna Renaissance mathematical nexus.
  11. The Renaissance Mathematicus “Live & Uming”
  12. The Phlogiston Theory – Wonderfully wrong but fantastically fruitful
  13. A bewitching lady astronomer
  14. Science contra Copernicus
  15. Political correctness and the history of science
  16. The Penny Universities
  17. Reaching for the stars
  18. Let the debate begin!
  19. The Head of the BBC Science Unit didn’t just jump the shark; he did a backflip over it!
  20. A breath of fresh air
  21. When Living in the Past Distorts the Past; Or, Why I Study the Victorian Era
  22. The growing pile – too many good books not enough time
  23. The Internet and the history of science community
  24. Aristocrats and paupers, farmers and tradesmen – Where do the scientists come from?
  25. Misusing Galileo to criticise the Galileo gambit
  26. Printing mistakes
  27. To Explain the Weinberg: The discovery of a Nobel Laureate’s view of the history of science
  28. Der Erdapfel
  29. Made in Nürnberg
  30. Sorry Caroline but Maria got there first!
  31. σῴζειν τὰ φαινόμενα, sozein ta phainomena
  32. A double bicentennial – George contra Ada – Reality contra Perception
  33. A 48-hour mind warp!
  34. For those who haven’t been paying attention
  35. The Renaissance Mathematicus Road Show 2015
  36. Three strikes and you’re out!
  37. Now We Are Six.
  38. Creating a holy cow.
  39. A twelve-year flash of genius
  40. On the trail of the Friends of Charles Darwin
  41. Teaching the Revolution.
  42. History or political propaganda?
  43. Ohm Sweet Ohm
  44. Unsung? I hardly think so
  45. Abraham Ortelius and the 16th century information age.
  46. Asterisms and Constellations and how not to confuse them with Tropical Signs.
  47. The worst history of technology headline of the year?
  48. There is no such thing as Greek science.
  49. Emmy the student and Emmy the communist!
  50. Calendrical confusion or just when did Newton die?
  51. The continuing saga of io9’s history of science inanities.
  52. Discovery is a process not an act.
  53. Why The Imitation Game is a disaster for historians.
  54. A Swiss Clockmaker
  55. From astronomy to literature – Bridging the gap
  56. Do you believe in magic?
  57. My Internet presence
  58. In which I recommend some bedtime reading
  59. The specialist in causing pain.
  60. The Simon Marius Anniversary Celebrations 2014 have been a great success
  61. If you’re going to blog about history of science then at least do the legwork.
  62. Preach truth – serve up myths.

2014 85

  1. Christmas Trilogy Part 3: Choosing a wife.
  2. Just saying…
  3. Christmas Trilogy Part 2: Computing mathematical miracles.
  4. Christmas Trilogy, what’s that?
  5. Christmas Trilogy 2014 Part I: Was he or wasn’t he and does it matter?
  6. Someone is Wrong on the Internet.
  7. A very similar luminous lustre appears when one observes a burning candle from a great distance through a translucent piece of horn.
  8. Retelling a story – this time with all the facts
  9. The weather and the stars
  10. Mega inanity
  11. The Renaissance Road Show – November 2014
  12. Financing Tycho’s little piece of heaven
  13. Having lots of letters after your name doesn’t protect you from spouting rubbish
  14. Copernicus and the calendar
  15. Little things matter – for want of a semicolon.
  16. The Queen of Science – The woman who tamed Laplace.
  17. Polluting Youtube once again!
  18. The unfortunate backlash in the historiography of Islamic science
  19. The horror, the horror!
  20. Jesuit Day
  21. If you’re going to pontificate about the history of science then at least get your facts right!
  22. Childhood, war games and becoming a historian.
  23. The naming of America – Redux
  24. Another one bites the dust
  25. I expected better of Tim Radford
  26. The naming of America
  27. Galileo, Foscarini, The Catholic Church, and heliocentricity in 1615 Part 2 –the consequences: A Rough Guide.
  28. Galileo, Foscarini, The Catholic Church, and heliocentricity in 1615 Part 1 – the occurrences: A Rough Guide.
  29. “…realigning the heavens with a single stroke of the brush.“ – Really?
  30. How much can you get wrong in an eight hundred word biographical sketch of a very famous sixteenth and seventeenth-century mathematicus and philosophicus? – One helluva lot it seems?
  31. Johannes Kepler’s Somnium and Katharina Kepler’s Trial for Witchcraft: The emergence of a myth.
  32. Comets and Heliocentricity: A Rough Guide
  33. The history of “scientist”
  34. Published on…
  35. Planetary Tables and Heliocentricity: A Rough Guide
  36. The Transition to Heliocentricity: The Rough Guides
  37. The Renaissance Mathematicus
  38. Niels & Me: Dysgraphia – A history of science footnote.
  39. Alea Iacta Est!
  40. Overwhelmed
  41. Learning to cope with dysgraphia.
  42. The Phases of Venus and Heliocentricity: A Rough Guide
  43. Science grows on the fertilizer of disagreement
  44. It’s The Final Countdown.
  45. Galileo, the Church and Heliocentricity: A Rough Guide.
  46. Chopping down the Beanstalk
  47. The Renaissance Mathematicus Road Show: May 2014
  48. Giants’ Shoulders #71: The better late than never, crack of doom, almost didn’t make it at all, sometimes life is like that, SNAFU edition.
  49. The Giant Delayed!
  50. The Moons of Jupiter
  51. Beware of hindsight!
  52. Henry and Isaac invade Oxford.
  53. How many real scientists can you name?
  54. Oh please!
  55. Was Will a Copernican?
  56. Some first class history of science reading for the holiday weekend: Giants’ Shoulders #70: The Sir Hans Sloane Birthday Collection
  57. Lists
  58. Looking up to Marius
  59. Giants’ Shoulders #70 celebrates a birthday.
  60. Luca, Leonardo, Albrecht and the search for the third dimension.
  61. Did Edmond tell Robert to, “sling his hooke!”?
  62. SHOCK! HORROR! OUTRAGE! RELIGION HINDERS PROGRESS OF SCIENCE!
  63. Everyday Renaissance Astrology.
  64. Ad lectorum: Expectation is a prison.
  65. Cartoons and Fables – How Cosmos Got the Story of Bruno Wrong
  66. Giants’ Shoulders #69: The Tunnel Edition
  67. A strange defence
  68. Where does the AD/BC dating convention come from?
  69. Sliding to mathematical fame.
  70. Oh, FFS!
  71. Why Newton’s Apple is not a good story.
  72. Rehabilitating Simon Marius
  73. Giants’ Shoulders #68: A Leaf on the Wind
  74. A double heliocentrism anniversary?
  75. Doctor, doctor, doctorate!
  76. Alchemical confusion redux.
  77. Alchemical confusion.
  78. Indian spectacles?
  79. An Asiatic Giants’ Shoulders
  80. An unfortunate conclusion.
  81. It was written in the stars: An improbable encounter on a country bus.
  82. Dying to make life easier for historians.
  83. Giants’ Shoulders #67 under early modern medical care.
  84. OPUS 500: A retrospective
  85. Giants’ Shoulders #67 is approaching the runway.

2013 88

  1. Christmas Trilogy 2013 Part III: A New Year’s Offering.
  2. The Renaissance Mathematicus Christmas Trilogy: An Explanation.
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2013 Part II: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
  4. Christmas Trilogy 2013 Part I: The Other Isaac [1].
  5. SASCHA 16 August 2001 – 23 December 2013
  6. On Giants’ Shoulders #66: Contagious History!
  7. Resignation.
  8. Christmas is coming, Giants’ Shoulders #66 too!
  9. When and how geology became a science.
  10. What Isaac actually asked the apple.
  11. Cromwell’s Code Breaker.
  12. Giants’ Shoulders #65: The Wallace Edition
  13. The case of the missing GS host: – Too stupid to operate a computer.
  14. Superlunar mutability does not imply heliocentricity!
  15. Astro-confusion
  16. Counting the hours
  17. Grieving for a man I never met.
  18. Giant’s Shoulders #64: The Lexicon Edition
  19. Was Madge really Mad or simply a woman?
  20. It’s Giants’ Shoulders Deadline time again!
  21. The Renaissance Mathematicus Road Show.
  22. Mary Somerville was not “the first scientist” and Ada Lovelace did not inspire “the first modern computer”.
  23. It was 500 years ago today…
  24. Rule Britannia: Britannia rules the sciences.
  25. The speed of light, a spin off from longitude research.
  26. A great read
  27. The corresponding accountant, the man who invented π and the Earls of Macclesfield.
  28. We are sailing: Giants’ Shoulders #63: Live from Deptford
  29. Here we go again…
  30. The problem with parallels.
  31. History of science is history and not science.
  32. After Giants’ Shoulders is before Giants’ Shoulders.
  33. Behind the Scenes: The Seven Ages of Science an Interview with Lisa Jardine.
  34. The BBC and the History of Science: Light and Shadows.
  35. A Glonk comes up roses: Giants’ Shoulders #62: Alpha Papa
  36. Hackers of the Renaissance? I don’t really think so.
  37. 3,2,1… Giants’ Shoulders!
  38. Counting the days.
  39. Alas, poor Wallace
  40. Howler of the Week.
  41. A Boring Century?
  42. Apelles hiding behind the painting
  43. Getting the measure of the earth.
  44. Making the indiscernible visible: Robert Hooke’s Micrographia
  45. Giants’ Shoulders goes to the library.
  46. John Dee, the ‘Mathematicall Praeface’ and the English School of Mathematics.
  47. “If he had lived, we might have known something”
  48. He didn’t publish and so he perished (historically).
  49. The Giants’ Shoulders History of Science Blog Carnival Needs You!
  50. Meeting the medieval manuscript man.
  51. Giants’ Shoulders #60 Part II: The Present
  52. How to insult an entire profession.
  53. Giants’ Shoulders #60 Part I: Five Full Years: A Retrospective
  54. Not banned, placed on the Index until corrected.
  55. Why history?
  56. A mind bogglingly stupid statement!
  57. Nicolaus was not a priest.
  58. 5 Brilliant Mathematicians – 4 Crappy Commentaries
  59. Cartographical Claptrap!
  60. Celebrating Denis Papin
  61. My ICHS nightmare.
  62. The Phlogiston Theory is not equivalent to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.
  63. AAARRRGGGHHHHH……
  64. A Bumper Crop: Giants’ Shoulders #59
  65. Get those submission in for Giant’s Shoulders #59!
  66. Gopnik, Galileo and Ed Yong: Galileo not admitting to being wrong.
  67. Isaac Newton: The Last Lone Genius?
  68. Giants’ Shoulders #58
  69. Help! I’ve just been savaged by a toothless American bulldog.
  70. If it hadn’t been for X there wouldn’t be a Y.
  71. F#*K the BBC
  72. A bit on the side.
  73. What was when modern?
  74. Pep up your sex life with a pinch of salt.
  75. Grumpy old astronomers behaving badly or don’t just blame Isaac!
  76. Giants’ Shoulders #57 conquers the Science Museum
  77. Just three days left for that killer #histsci post!
  78. Carnivalesque #93 Pre-Modern History with Added Cats
  79. A little learning is a dangerous thing
  80. Shakespeare was clairvoyant.
  81. Giants’ Shoulders #56 The Giant Edition.
  82. A play is not a history book.
  83. Down a mineshaft or why historians (must) become polymaths.
  84. Carnivals
  85. What Kepler and Newton really did.
  86. “Curiosities, Utilities and Authority” – Giants’ Shoulders #55
  87. How to murder your wife and get away with it: First become a famous successful telescope maker.
  88. Giants Shoulders #55: Three Days Left!

2012 97

  1. The ideal historian of science
  2. Christmas Trilogy 2012 Part III: What to do if your mother’s a witch.
  3. Christmas Trilogy 2012 Part II: Charles and Ada: A tale of genius or of exploitation?
  4. Christmas Trilogy 2012 Part I: Did Isaac really victimise Stephen?
  5. Pseudo-science, proto-science, pre-science or just plain science?
  6. A Fine Purple Light
  7. Science in Antiquity: A book review
  8. The History of Science Santa is early this year: Giants’ Shoulders #54 “A Sleigh Load of History” is up.
  9. Giants’ Shoulders The Apocalypse Edition
  10. Humanity’s interest in the so-called pseudo-sciences has not always been bad for science.
  11. The Curious Edition of Giants’ Shoulders
  12. The pocket diary: A great Renaissance invention
  13. The Tycho Myth
  14. Just three days left to submit those #HistSci gems!
  15. Monday morning smack-down: Sherlock Holmes rather than Dirty Harry.
  16. The “first” Atlas
  17. Dear Stu, you might be a good novelist but you’re a lousy historian.
  18. The other professor of mathematics at Wittenberg.
  19. Women at The Renaissance Mathematicus
  20. Another feminist Newtonian: Bologna’s Minerva
  21. The Heroic #52 Edition of Giants’ Shoulders is up.
  22. Oh Boy! I done screwed up real bad and nobody noticed!
  23. An Italo-Chinese Jesuit
  24. The wheel in the sky keeps on turning.
  25. Not a martyr for science.
  26. It’s silly questions time again: “Was Newton a scientist or a sorcerer?
  27. Heroes a footnote
  28. Giants’ Shoulders #51 scores a first!
  29. Heroes for the laity
  30. No more heroes anymore.
  31. If not Whig history what then?
  32. Phrases in the history of science that should be abolished, banned, forbidden, eradicated, annihilated, obliterated, eliminated, jettisoned, extirpated…
  33. Dava Sobel tries her hand at historical fantasy.
  34. Nobody invented the scientific method.
  35. Oh dear! More crap than you can shake a stick at.
  36. Refusing to look.
  37. Acceptance, rejection and indifference to heliocentricity before 1610.
  38. The Giants’ Shoulders turns fifty.
  39. We live in a geocentric world!
  40. Just six days left to make those submissions for Giants’ Shoulders #50
  41. Saints and Demons
  42. Giants’ Shoulders #49: The “Crisis what Crisis?” edition.
  43. Standing on the Shoulders of Bloggers: Carnival frustration searing my soul.
  44. The Virgin Queen was in reality John Dee in drag.
  45. Reflecting the heavens
  46. Giants’ Shoulders #48 is up
  47. Hans Peter from Langendorf
  48. It’s just a question of words
  49. Living and dying in Cook’s shadow
  50. When you’re in a hole, stop digging!
  51. Scientific American craps out.
  52. Time travelling philosophers
  53. Mapping the history of triangulation
  54. Giants’ Shoulders #47 is visiting the Medical Heritage Library
  55. Giants’ Shoulders #47 has gone missing!
  56. A mathematician who became Pope.
  57. How not to write about Renaissance mathematics
  58. Leonardo artist-engineer redux.
  59. Is Leonardo da Vinci a great artist or a great scientist? Neither actually.
  60. The Swerve is really a full-frontal crash.
  61. What’s in a name?
  62. Who put the names on the moon?
  63. A knighthood for science?
  64. Giants’ Shoulders #45
  65. A revisionist historian of science on the Scientific American Guest Blog.
  66. “…and then he missed it” – David Rittenhouse and the Transit of Venus 1769
  67. Monday blast from the past #15: Happy Birthday Francesco Maria
  68. The Renaissance Mathematicus Roadshow
  69. Unsound history
  70. The GIANTS’ SHOULDERS #45
  71. Calendrical Confusion or The Dangers of Dating!
  72. The Prof says: Tycho was a scientist, not a blunderer and a darn good one too!
  73. It’s not the Mercator projection; it’s the Mercator-Wright projection!
  74. Gazing at the horizon.
  75. Being wrong is not a crime; knowing what’s right and deliberately saying the wrong thing is!
  76. Oh! OK, I’ll just pack up and go home then.
  77. AAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHH!!!!!
  78. How far the moon?
  79. Giants’ Shoulders #44: The Grand Bazaar Edition.
  80. Midwifery in the evolution of science
  81. Apart from Muhammad Ali there aint no such thing as ‘The Greatest’
  82. Monday blast from the past #14 (on a Sunday): A biological birthday
  83. Monday blast from the past #13: Newton’s Early Optics
  84. Badly researched footnotes.
  85. A 17th Century astronomer on my twitter stream.
  86. Monday blast from the past #12 Astronomers getting down to basics
  87. The last great naked-eye astronomer.
  88. Discovering HistSci stupidity in the Intertubes
  89. Submitting posts to Giants’ Shoulders #HistSci blog carnival
  90. A black spot in science writing
  91. Lisa commits the ‘father of’ sin
  92. Monday blast from the past #11 (On a Tuesday): Who’s John Ray?
  93. The Dispersal of History of Science Posts: Giants’ Shoulder #43
  94. Neglected Duties: Giants’ Shoulders #42 & Giants’ Shoulders #43
  95. Cantor Redux
  96. Infinity did not drive Cantor crazy.
  97. Monday blast from the past #10: Leonardo rides again!

2011 99

  1. Hunting the Divine Mind
  2. Reformation, revolutions and social media.
  3. Kepler contra Fludd, science contra woo?
  4. Monday blast from the past #9: The posts of Christmas past.
  5. How Charles tried to oust Isaac from Cambridge.
  6. Only 26 and already a professor!
  7. Out to Lunch!
  8. Monday blast from the past #8
  9. The story of a problem
  10. Christmas is coming and Giants’ Shoulders #42 too
  11. It’s that time again!
  12. Monday blast from the past #7: What’s your favourite rhythm? Mine’s an algorithm.
  13. Monday blast from the past #6: Periodisation in history
  14. The Cult of St Alan of Bletchley Park
  15. Monday blast from the past #5: Who invented the computer?
  16. Multiplying the Renaissance way
  17. Just Eight Days!
  18. Monday blast from the past #4: Newton’s dotage
  19. A small spot in front of the sun, a small step down the road to heliocentricity.
  20. James Gregory did not invent the reflecting telescope.
  21. History Blog Carnival: The All Saints Eclectic Edition.
  22. Monday Blast from the Past #3
  23. Monday Blast from the Past #2
  24. Monday Blast from the Past #1
  25. Giants’ Shoulders #40
  26. Daughters of Urania
  27. The man who inverted and squared gravity.
  28. It’s only been about 100 years!
  29. Better late than never: Giants’ Shoulders #39-part I is up
  30. A really fucking stupid statement
  31. Giants’ Shoulders #39 delayed
  32. Just three writing days to Giants’ Shoulders #39
  33. How to look silly without really trying
  34. The day that Francis died: Taking Isaac down a peg or two.
  35. The three alchemical pillars of modern science: just a thought.
  36. Is there life on Mars?
  37. The day that Jonas died
  38. Cobbler stick to thy last
  39. Politics and mathematics
  40. Upon reflection: The Hadley brothers.
  41. Giants’ Shoulders #38: A Georgian Special
  42. Der Wunderkammer: Giants’ Shoulders #37
  43. Teleskopos: How the telescope got its name
  44. In my time of dying.
  45. Will the crap ever stop?
  46. Mythologizing John Dee
  47. There is a season Turn! Turn! Turn!
  48. A lover of paradoxes
  49. But it doesn’t move!
  50. An interesting question.
  51. Christie’s Law
  52. A history of science alphabet.
  53. WATCH OUT! There’s a Thief About.
  54. On this day in history!
  55. The world’s first scientific press
  56. Bloggers, “On Giants’ Shoulders” needs YOU!
  57. The astronomical revolution didn’t start here!
  58. Nations, nationality, nationalism, history and historiography.
  59. A maths book from a painter
  60. A Croatian Polymath
  61. Season of the Witch
  62. How to use a microscope.
  63. The house where Emmy lived
  64. A Gallic Newtonian
  65. Not a birthday boy: some thoughts on Renaissance birth dates
  66. The next generation
  67. The statistics of dying
  68. Giants’ Shoulders #34
  69. 126 Arguments
  70. Pissing on a Holy Cow
  71. Nürnberg: Pencil Capital of the World!
  72. Putting the lead in your pencil
  73. Giants’ Shoulders #34 update
  74. History of Science through the eyes of a dog: Giants’ Shoulders #33
  75. Ich bin a Gastblogger III: Drinking from the same well
  76. Ich bin ein Gastbloggerin: A special post for International Women’s Day.
  77. Ich bin ein Gastblogger II: The wrong question
  78. Ich bin ein Gastblogger
  79. When did what end?
  80. History, morals, ethics, reliability and authority.
  81. Giants’ Shoulders #32 is out
  82. The fall of astrology: two footnotes
  83. The rise and fall of astrology
  84. A change in terminology
  85. The Empty Building
  86. On the seventh day…
  87. Not the end but a beginning
  88. The Astrology Wars a closing statement.
  89. The astrology wars and abandoned scientific research programmes.
  90. Where the fuck are we?
  91. Copernican hypotheticals!
  92. Some questions from Norway
  93. The blatherings of Mr Wrong
  94. Questions on spots
  95. A shot of caffeine and GS #31
  96. Only three days to submit
  97. One day later
  98. Spotting the spots.
  99. Having my trumpet blown for me.

2010 106

  1. Philosophising scientists or scientific philosophers in the 17th century.
  2. A Christmas Trinity III: Johann’s geometrical music.
  3. A Christmas Trinity II: Charlie, Ivor, Robert and me.
  4. A Christmas Trinity I: Isaac was one too.
  5. A feminist Newtonian
  6. Christmas comes but once a year and when it comes it brings Giants’ Shoulders #30
  7. The 2nd scientific revolution.
  8. Six, five, fourth, three…
  9. Theological cosmology
  10. Shovelling shit.
  11. 17th century cosmology redux.
  12. A rose by any other name…
  13. Giants’ Shoulders #29 is out.
  14. Kepler’s divine geometry.
  15. Galileo’s great bluff and part of the reason why Kuhn is wrong.
  16. 10,9,8…
  17. Pictures of Isaac.
  18. No they effin’ didn’t and no he effin’ didn’t either.
  19. The end of summer.
  20. Giants’ Shoulders #28 is out.
  21. Where the pictures came from
  22. The London Society of Astrologers
  23. Only Three Giants’ Shoulders till Christmas
  24. How I got to know Joseph Moxon: On Asking the right Questions.
  25. The Velvet Underground of Renaissance Mathematics
  26. The countdown has begun.
  27. Nicky, Jerry and Andy a story of Renaissance publishing.
  28. The Book That Nobody Read.
  29. Not the centre but the garbage can.
  30. It’s a Giant one!
  31. A Man of many talents.
  32. Born under a bad sign.
  33. Only five days till The Rapture
  34. A new kid on the block
  35. Sometimes I despair!
  36. Pressure, friction and deafness.
  37. The father of…
  38. A household name
  39. Return of the stamp collector
  40. Giants’ Shoulders: Sascha’s birthday edition
  41. Squid history
  42. Only nine blogging days to GS #27
  43. Isaac, William, Eduardo and me!
  44. Where I am at this moment.
  45. Flying Visit
  46. A death in the community
  47. Books for Copernicus
  48. The Giants’ Shoulders #25: Now we are two.
  49. Newton Lied!
  50. The Book of Nature is written in the language of mathematics.
  51. The scientific potter.
  52. Birth of the guinea pig.
  53. Weaving the computer age.
  54. Not only the press!
  55. Don’t you just love journalists?
  56. Of Herbs and Herbals.
  57. A storm in a teacup.
  58. Justifying my existence.
  59. The lunatic who invented fizzy pop.
  60. Thank God for experts
  61. Take a trip to London
  62. The Colossus is not a computer!
  63. Z3 or not Z3 that is the question.
  64. A day of ignominy
  65. Stoned Henge
  66. Religion contra science.
  67. Gunfight at the Cubic Corral
  68. Giant’s Shoulders #24
  69. Now we are one.
  70. Somebody’s been reading my blog!
  71. Taking the colour out of light.
  72. Going to the movies
  73. The real founder of telescopic astronomy.
  74. Ferdinando the Wunderkind.
  75. Extracting the stopper.
  76. Jerry the Builder from the Waterfall
  77. A Life on the Ocean Waves.
  78. Bertie’s Dream
  79. Circumnavigating the Globe
  80. Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel.
  81. Sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar…
  82. MATHEMATICIANS 1 THEOLOGIANS 0
  83. Giant’s Shoulders #22
  84. Congratulations and Celebrations
  85. Joining up the dots
  86. Emmy and the Habilitation
  87. From Prester John to higher mathematics.
  88. The Giant’s Shoulders #21
  89. Happy Birthday Caroline
  90. The Darkened Room
  91. Refraction, refrangibility, diffraction or inflexion
  92. Ada Lovelace Day
  93. Oh happy day!
  94. It was 400 years ago…
  95. GG Superstar!
  96. It wasn’t the first but…
  97. GIANT’S SHOULDERS #20 is up
  98. A man with a strange name.
  99. A Biological Birthday.
  100. A Lady of Science
  101. When did the (Scientific) Renaissance take place?
  102. Bruno was not scientific
  103. Quote of the month? year? century?
  104. The Giant’s Shoulders #19
  105. We know it moves but can you prove it?
  106. John Wilkins Day

2009 107

  1. Medical Brackets
  2. Shedding some light!
  3. Is the question ‘who invented the computer’ legitimate?
  4. On clocks and triangles: a post for Newtonmas
  5. Let the Sunshine in!
  6. I’m back although I haven’t been away!
  7. A boy from Essex who made good
  8. Astronomy and Astrology 0: Prelude
  9. Cutting heroes down to size.
  10. Isaac Newton perverts the course of science.
  11. An important anniversary in the history of science.
  12. The day my world turned pear shaped
  13. In defence of the indefensible.
  14. Not just an architect.
  15. How not to report (history of) science
  16. The Last Magician
  17. Naïve or everyday presentism
  18. It was 401 years ago today…
  19. Cannonballs, Cherrios and Snowflakes
  20. Where’s the Author?
  21. The Book of Curiosities
  22. Riding the Wave
  23. Information doesn’t equal Meaning
  24. Mapping Africa
  25. He said it would be there and it was!
  26. Riffing on an Algorithm
  27. Dark What?
  28. Autumn
  29. Those that don’t know history…
  30. Why scientists shouldn’t write history of science
  31. plus ça change
  32. A piece of real writing
  33. I don’t really belong here.
  34. Poetical Turing
  35. Religious Revenge
  36. Translating Karen Armstrong
  37. Music of the Spheres
  38. Too little too late but it’s better than nothing
  39. A Telescope Chronology:
  40. Fire on the mountain.
  41. Getting the historical facts right!
  42. Around the Corner of the Intertubes where I hang out. II
  43. Crisis What Crisis? Kuhn and the fabrication of history.
  44. Newton and the Counterfeiter on the Radio.
  45. “Schnupps” 25th January 1998 – 24th August 2009
  46. Normal service will be resumed…
  47. A Death in the Family
  48. Grayling defends Protestant theology against the Jesuits?
  49. A.C. Grayling, the Jesuits and Prejudice.
  50. The Superior Stamp Collector
  51. Models of Mars
  52. Giant’s Shoulders #14
  53. The Strange Case of the Missing Sock
  54. A Quote
  55. A Piece of Local History
  56. Plain and Simple Language.
  57. A Blog Motto
  58. Syphilis and Comets
  59. One of my worst academic puns!
  60. The Moons of Mars
  61. IYA in Bad Staffelstein
  62. A Taxonomic War.
  63. A Confusion of Bernoullis!
  64. Christians are not Christians!
  65. A Reading List for Joel Hendon
  66. Two Quotes for the Christians.
  67. A confusion of Hamiltons
  68. Twinkle, twinkle little star how I wonder where you went?
  69. What’s you star sign, Emu or Djulpan?
  70. A Bandwagon to Jump On.
  71. Around the Corner of the Intertubes where I hang out.
  72. Fucking for the Environment.
  73. The Smoothing Effect of Ear Wax.
  74. FACKELWALD: On Watching Torchwood in German(y)
  75. It’s a sin to lie Mr Mann and you’ve been lying!”
  76. Newton and the Counterfeiter: A Review Part 2.
  77. It Was Forty Years Ago Yesterday…
  78. How Not to Report Science! A Mild Rant about the Moon Landing Anniversary
  79. Newton and the Counterfeiter: Part one: A review of a volume of popular history
  80. Nicky was an Ermländer!
  81. Giant’s Shoulders #13
  82. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Proud to Present Element #112 Copernicium
  83. Asia’s Oldest Observatory
  84. The Starry Messenger What it Said and What that Really Meant!
  85. Not just a Magus but also a Mathematicus
  86. And the Earth Really Does Revolve Around the Sun
  87. Galileo Discovered Neptune!
  88. Newton and the Counterfeiter: Review of a Subtitle!
  89. To accommodate or not to accommodate that is the question.
  90. Free Book on Irish Science!
  91. What’s in a Name?
  92. RIP Mr Ohm
  93. 955th Anniversary of the Biggest 4th of July Firework Ever!
  94. Newton’s Dotage
  95. IDA the Backstory
  96. “We woz wrong” says prelate!
  97. Its Monastic not Christian!
  98. Science and Religion in The Early Middle Ages
  99. A Week Away
  100. Giant’s Shoulders #12
  101. City Seductions
  102. Fly me to the Moon
  103. Ten Scientific Objects that changed the World
  104. Local Historian
  105. A loser who was really a winner.
  106. A Mission Statement
  107. WHO AM I AND WHY AM I HERE?