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Renaissance Garbage – VI
This is the sixth and final episode in a series of discussions of selected parts of Paul Strathern’s The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare, (Atlantic Books, 2023). For more general...
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Around the world in 312 pages
I have gained a reputation for pointing out and demolishing myths in the history of science. One area where these are particularly prevalent is in the history of the European Middle Ages. With...
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Flat Moon, I saw you skimming the skies…[1]
Old Hulky[2] was thinking of taking time off for the summer and retiring to an ice floe[3] in the North Atlantic for a couple of weeks to escape the heat wave, when Neil deGrasse Tyson has to go and...
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Incorrect casual assumptions
No, she bleedin’ weren’t! That was my buddy the HISTSCI_HULK expostulating whilst he was indulging in his annoying habit of peering over my shoulder whilst I’m reading. She never was! That’s simply...
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Science vs Religion? Science with Religion? Science without Religion?...
One of the most persistent myths, that keeps recurring in the history of science, is that there is some sort of fundament conflict or even a mutual incompatibility between science and religion. In the...
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Simon Marius a wannabee!? – STOMP STOMP STOMP…
Springer is one of the world’s largest academic publishers with a vast catalogue of science and history of science publications. One might think that when Springer publishes a history of science book,...
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HISCTSCI_HULK reporting for duty – A history of science and technology...
I don’t remember ever coming across half a paragraph of just nineteen lines that manages to cram in so many history of science and technology myths, errors, and falsehoods as the one that I recently...
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Hubble telescope and Leeuwenhoek bollocks from NdGT
Back in May 2023, Renaissance Mathematicus friend, Michael Barton, expert for all things Darwinian, drew our attention to a new piece of history of science hot air from the HISTSCI_HULK’s least...
View ArticleHow not to write history of science – Episode 1,000,000
General astronomy freak and eclipse chaser Daniel Fischer drew my attention to an online manifesto from the International Astronomical Union, Call to Protect the Dark and Quiet Sky from Harmful...
View ArticleThe most stupid, effin take on Newton, the apple, and the theory of gravity ever
My mate the HISTSCI_HULK, known to his friends as Hulky, was perusing our email website this morning, which as well as being the repository for our electronic mail is a sort of online newspaper,...
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