The spirits and gods were believed to make their presence known through disease. Introduction When people fall...
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Menelaus, and others like him, reduced the physical world to a purely geometric one. By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
The Earth has been through many changes during its existence. Introduction Modern geologists and geophysicists consider the...
The Catholic Church didn’t finally officially recognize their own error until John Paul II in 1992. Introduction...
His work marked the starting point of modern astronomy and cosmology. Introduction Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473...
Without a revolution in physics, the very birth of our universe will remain forever hidden from us....
It all started with the realization that we can describe the dynamics of the universe within a...
NESSI views the galaxy in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. By Elizabeth Landau...
It was a matter of the right eclipse, the right place, and the right time. By Charles...
Humboldt almost invented the electric battery– in fact, he came very close. Alexander von Humboldt was born...
Whether you are into writing and need polishing your style, or you are a newbie trying to...
The first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses, and supernovae were made in China. Introduction The history...
Employing the word “truth”. By Dr. David P. BarashEvolutionary Biologist and Professor Emeritus of PsychologyUniversity of Washington...
Diderot produced an impressive, unfinished work over at least 15 years. Introduction Today (October 5) is 300...
The Sumerians first explored the practice of the scientific hypothesis. Introduction Mesopotamian science and technology developed during...
A virtual tour through our little space in the universe. Originally published by ESRI, republished with embed...
If you go by editorial cartoons and T-shirts, you might have the impression that evolution proceeds as...
Hydrogen is the first element in the periodic table and essential for life on Earth. It may...
Many were conflicted between their desire to believe and their want of rigorous intellectual explanation, and material...
In addition to the numerous pioneering works of science fiction by which he made his name, H....
We’re not exactly sure what the universe was up to in the first few nano-moments into the...
Lodestones are dull, lumpy, and slate-gray, but their “magnetic intelligence” made them fabulously expensive. Magnets have souls....
By midcentury, Victorian natural historians seemed hungry for information from formerly inaccessible regions of Africa. With a...
Darwin to understand the convergence of disparate scales of geological and human history. The event now known...
Without a doubt, the most influential concept in German university history is that of the “unity of...
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most influential scientists of the 19th century. His discoveries have...
Copernicus caused a revolution in contemporary knowledge by stating that science, not religion, explains how the universe...
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a growth in the inland exploration of Latin America. Introduction The...
Born on July 18, 1635, this polymath broke ground in fields ranging from pneumatics, microscopy, mechanics and...
Sir Francis Bacon developed a method for philosophers to use in weighing the truthfulness of knowledge. How...