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- Incorrect casual assumptions https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/09/21/incorrect-casual-assumptions/ 37 comments
- Renaissance Science – XXII: Land Surveying https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2021/11/04/renaissance-science-xxii/ 5 comments
- A seventeenth century Jesuit who constructed his own monument https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/a-seventeenth-century-jesuit-who-constructed-his-own-monument-and-designed-the-first-auto-mobile/ 10 comments
- Renaissance Science: the base ten number system https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/renaissance-science-ix/ 11 comments
- The event that eventually led to Newton writing and publishing the Principia https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2020/07/15/the-emergence-of-modern-astronomy-a-complex-mosaic-part-xl/ 56 comments
- The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXVII https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2020/01/08/the-emergence-of-modern-astronomy-a-complex-mosaic-part-xxvii/ 11 comments
- The Swinging 1660s https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/the-swinging-1660s/ 17 comments
- Calculus for the Curious https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/calculus-for-the-curious/ 38 comments
- The first calculating machine https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/the-first-calculating-machine/ 8 comments
- 400 Years of the Third Law – An overlooked and neglected revolution in astronomy https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/400-years-of-the-third-law-an-overlooked-and-neglected-revolution-in-astronomy/ 12 comments
- The path that the decimal number system took from India to medieval Europe https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/as-easy-as-123/ 60 comments
- Born under a bad sign https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/born-under-a-bad-sign/ 2 comments
- The first English professor of mathematics https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/02/07/the-first-english-professor-of-mathematics/ 8 comments
- A Lady Logician https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/a-lady-logician/ 11 comments
- Galileo and Heliocentricity: A Rough Guide (2014) https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/galileo-the-church-and-heliocentricity-a-rough-guide/ 22 comments
- The Great Man Paradox https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/the-great-man-paradox/ 30 comments
- The problem with superlatives in the history of science https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/the-problem-with-superlatives/ 5 comments
- A Renaissance Artist-Engineer Icon – Vitruvian Man https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/a-renaissance-artist-engineer-icon-vitruvian-man/ 2 comments
- Multiplying and dividing with Hindu-Arabic numerals and with Roman ones https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2017/02/10/the-widespread-and-persistent-myth-that-it-is-easier-to-multiply-and-divide-with-hindu-arabic-numerals-than-with-roman-ones/ 74 comments
- Is Newtonian physics Newton’s physics? (2016) https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/christmas-trilogy-2016-part-1-is-newtonian-physics-newtons-physics/ 14 comments
- Some rather strange history of maths https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/08/18/some-rather-strange-history-of-maths/ 12 comments
- They knew it was round, damn it https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/repeat-after-me-they-knew-it-was-round-damn-it/ 78 comments
- Boole, Shannon and the Electronic Computer https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/boole-shannon-and-the-electronic-computer/ 3 comments
- Andreas Osiander: The greatest villain in the history of science? https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/12/19/the-greatest-villain-in-the-history-of-science/ 15 comments
- Johannes Kepler was not a lone genius https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/a-misleading-book-title-that-creates-the-wrong-impression/ 44 comments
- The Phlogiston Theory – Wonderfully wrong but fantastically fruitful https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/the-phlogiston-theory-wonderfully-wrong-but-fantastically-fruitful/ 17 comments
- James Watt: A Twelve-Year Flash of Genius https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/a-twelve-year-flash-of-genius/ 23 comments
- Killed by Homeopathy http://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/killed-by-homeopathy/ 180 comments
- Books on history of calculus but with as much math as history? https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/10/16/calculus-for-the-curious/ 15 comments math
- 400 Years of The Third Law–An overlooked and neglected revolution in astronomy https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/400-years-of-the-third-law-an-overlooked-and-neglected-revolution-in-astronomy/ 8 comments space
- Dangerous Twaddle: a scathing review of BBC4's mathematics documentary "Dangerous Knowledge" https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/dangerous-twaddle/ 20 comments math
- "Given time the Catholic Church would have come to accept heliocentricity in the seventeenth-century and in fact because Galileo acted unadvisedly he drove the Church to reject and condemn heliocentricity and thus to substantially delaying its acceptance by that organisation" http://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/08/13/galileo-foscarini-the-catholic-church-and-heliocentricity-in-1615-part-1-the-occurrences-a-rough-guide/ 16 comments history
- Why we should all stop using the Newton/Apple story. (not the pda!) http://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/why-newtons-apple-is-not-a-good-story/ 4 comments math