Galileo reaches for the stars
Topol, Tom Conti, Edward Fox and John Gielgud add up to one clever biopic, if you subtract 45 minutes of flagging in the middle Down to earth ... Topol emphasises Galileo's earthiness in Joseph Losey's...
View ArticleDavid Warsh: Paradigms after 50 years
By DAVID WARSH CAMBRIDGE For a book built on a narrative of, among other things, the history of our understanding of electricity, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,'' by Thomas Kuhn, has had a...
View ArticleScientists and their brilliant works
Galileo Galilee-Telescopes Isaac Newton – Gravity Charles Darwin-Theory of...
View ArticleSobel deftly packages Copernicus story
In a hybrid of historical nonfiction and a two-act play, the life of Nicolaus Copernicus is depicted within a broad context of the history of medieval Central Europe in “A More Perfect Heaven” (Walker;...
View Article“A More Perfect Heaven,” by Dava Sobel, is about the revolutionary idea of...
I still can’t see it. I go outside at night and watch the stars spinning around the north star, I watch the sun come up, move across the sky, go down. On early autumn mornings in my backyard, I keep...
View Article"A More Perfect Heaven," by Dava Sobel, is about the revolutionary idea of...
I still can’t see it. I go outside at night and watch the stars spinning around the north star, I watch the sun come up, move across the sky, go down. On early autumn mornings in my backyard, I keep...
View ArticleWhat does the Bible say about a geocentric flat earth
Is there any biblical truth to the question. "What does the Bible say about a geocentric flat earth? To answer this question we must use the Bible as our guide to the heavens because it was God who...
View ArticleDated discoveries built on innovation
It must be a wonderful thing to discover something so important that the date it occurred becomes an annual day of celebration marked on a calendar. The achievement delivers an exclamation point in...
View ArticleAt ease with the seen and the unseen
Mohammad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Al Hassan Al Tusi, or Nasir Al Deen Al Tusi, stood out among Persian scholars. While true philosophical activities almost ceased after Ibn Rushd, at the end of the 12th...
View ArticleSpeed of light 'broken': life changing scientific discoveries
The science world has been left in shock after it was announced that CERN scientists had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light in a finding that could overturn...
View ArticleOn This Day: Galileo Faces Inquisition
On Feb. 13, 1633, Galileo arrived in Rome to be tried for promoting Copernican theories, such as the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun. During Galileo’s lifetime, the accepted theory of...
View ArticleWho are the most dangerous scientists in history?
The recent manslaughter verdicts passed on Italian seismologists in L'Aquila have serious ramifications for all scientists, living or dead. Many more criminal convictions could follow Dr Strangelove,...
View ArticleNicolaus Copernicus Biography: Facts & Discoveries
In the early 1500s, when virtually everyone believed Earth was the center of the universe, Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus proposed that the planets instead rotated around the sun. Although his...
View ArticleLong Awaited Scientific Theory Discovered
In his new book, author Arkay Nair reveals the Grand Unified Theory, which brings solutions in reach for global warming and energy shortages. MANCHESTER, CT (PRWEB) November 14, 2011 Author Arkay Nair...
View ArticleCopernicus: looking past the footnote
The best bits are in the footnotes: every attentive reader knows that. Dava Sobel has built a career out of taking these marginal details and spinning them into pop-science bestsellers. Longitude...
View ArticleResearch and Markets: Shifting the Earth: The Mathematical Quest to...
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7d2a2d/shifting_the_earth) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Shifting the...
View ArticleGalileo Galilei: A Man of Many Worlds
On February 15, 1564, Galileo Galilei entered the world unaware that he would become a physicist, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and inventor. Born the eldest son of Vincenzio Galilei, a...
View ArticleLet there be light
News that an experiment at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), the giant particle accelerator near Geneva, has obtained results at odds with Albert Einstein's theory of relativity...
View ArticleThe Scientific Sun King
By TIMOTHY FERRIS Copernicus may have inaugurated the scientific revolution and thus changed the world—the social connotations of the word "revolution" come from the title of his epochal book, "On the...
View ArticleAstronomer who shook up the universe
MICHAEL JOHN GORMAN SCIENCE:�A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionised the Cosmos�By Dava Sobel Bloomsbury, 273pp. �14.99 IN THE HEAT of the Lutheran Reformation, rumours of a strange new...
View ArticleAstronomy, Art, Religion Explored (San Diego State University)
A new Special Collections exhibit features rare astronomical works. Heavenly Revolutions: The Dawn of Our Solar System will be on display in the Louis Kenney Reading Room (LA4410) through December,...
View ArticleScientists Behaving Badly
Should we be shocked by scientific fraud, or is such misbehavior actually rather common? It might not be something to celebrate, but scientists who commit research fraud are following in a grand...
View Article7 Epic Moments In Science History
The word science has been around since the days of ancient Rome. It derives from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge" in the widest sense. But the word scientist is much younger--less than two...
View ArticleFamous Astronomers | List of Great Scientists in Astronomy
Throughout human history, scientists have struggled to understand what they see in the universe. Famous astronomers — many of them great scientists who mastered many fields — explained the heavens with...
View ArticleMy Teacher's Teacher
When I first started teaching physics, the standard narrative was that modern science began with the heroic efforts of Galileo to gain acceptance for the revolutionary sun-centered world view of...
View ArticleFaith vs reason
Ethon Lowe, GUEST COLUMNIST In a rambling, convoluted article in The Sunday Gleaner ('Science and religion: clash of two faiths', July 7, 2013), Mr Martin Henry, a communications specialist, no less,...
View ArticleGroundbreaking Scientists who were dedicated Christians
Tweet 0 Email Report Photo 1 of 20 One of the earliest champions of the Scientific Method, showing that Christians were among the first to advance scientific thinking.Famous for establishing “Ockham’s...
View ArticlePointless Christianity-science battle
Delroy Williams, Guest Columnist Faith in God and science is not incompatible. The notion that there is combat between Christianity and science is intensely flawed. God and science are not alternative...
View ArticlePlatonism and Secularism in the Thought of Plethon
Byzantium (medieval Greece) survived the barbarian invasions that brought the Western Roman Empire to an end in the fifth century. Medieval Greece lived for more than a millennium, for several...
View ArticleCharting the Great Age of Arab Scientific Development
What images are conjured when hearing the word Iraq? We have sadly become used to Iraq being synonymous with brutal, endless war and the suffering of its people. Whichever political lens through which...
View ArticleThe fantastic Dr Dee: angels, magic and the birth of modern science
As Damon Albarn's opera opens in London, Carole Jahme wonders why Dee has been written out of the history of science Director Rufus Norris and Dr Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the Royal...
View ArticleNew Books Party: books received this week
This week, I tell you about Evolution in a Toxic World, the Ballet of the Planets, Sin and more! Below the jump, I mention the books that I received in the mail recently. These are the books that I may...
View ArticleStanley M. Aronson: Needing more than the patience of Job
The adolescents’ prayer: “Lord, give me patience — but I want it now!” And did not Margaret Thatcher also claim to be “extraordinarily patient, as long as I get my way in the end”? Patience, in name at...
View ArticleThe three men of science who loved creation
There is more men of science who loved creation. But these three men were beyond their time. They loved science but they loved God, His Word, and creation even more. They were Francis Bacon, Galileo...
View ArticleSky Guy: Please don't confuse Carl Sagan with Miss Cleo
“Hi, my name is Tom, and I’m, like, a Leo, born when Jupiter and Saturn were in the same house. What’s your sign?” OK, maybe I never actually tried to woo a lady with a corny line like that, and my...
View ArticleIsaac Newton Died A Virgin And 9 Other Facts About The Brilliant, Bizarre...
Isaac Newton today is venerated as one of the greatest scientists who ever lived -- the father of classical mechanics and co-creator of calculus. But in his day, Newton was known for many things,...
View ArticleNorthern Rockies Skies for November: The Andromeda Constellation (University...
(Source: University of Wyoming) October 28, 2013 - A monthly look at the night skies of the northern Rocky Mountains, written by astronomers Ron Canterna, University of Wyoming; Jay Norris, Challis,...
View ArticleCopernicus contradicts the Bible
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is famous for his theory that Earth moves around the Sun-and not the other way around. Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland, the son of a merchant. As a young adult,...
View ArticleTop 10 Contributors to Space Exploration
Anthony Castrio July 12, 2012 Check out our new companion site: http://knowledgenuts.com We learn more about the final frontier every day, but the technology that allows us to probe the cosmos did not...
View ArticleGenesis, Creation, and Astronomy
Creation studies have revealed many informative details about our planet earth. earth studies have indeed provided a rich treasure of creation evidence but this is just a small part of the entire...
View Article5 Brilliant Scientists And Their Biggest Blunders
When a scientific theory is proven false, often youll find anti-science zealots claiming the findings as proof that science is fallible and thus wrong. Thats the thing about scientific study, its in...
View Article25 Modern science, math and technology leaders who were homeschooled
Bill Nye surprised and annoyed many homeschoolers recently when he suggested on his Facebook page that homeschooled students would be poorly equipped to excel in science. When a homeschooling mother...
View ArticleWas Shakespeare the first science-fiction writer?
Shakespeare spoke of ''the inaudible and noiseless foot of time'' - but the revelry will likely be quite audible indeed when the playwright's 450th birthday arrives in April. A major anniversary is a...
View ArticleBrain power still the genesis of scientific breakthroughs
Will we ever again see a Newton, a Darwin or an Einstein - scientists who decoded the laws of nature using nothing more than brainpower and a few simple tools? Or can the human mind no longer make...
View ArticleGoing the Arab way
Arab thought, Arab writers, Arab science, Arab politics! The 23rd Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF), which came to an end on Monday evening, took a sharp turn towards the Arab book industry. “I...
View ArticleSaturn stumped the ancient stargazers
We will find Saturn dominating our night sky as summer nears. Rising in the east a bit after sunset, Saturn is approaching opposition at the end of this month. At opposition, a planet is opposite the...
View ArticleGalileo contradicts the Bible
Although Galileo believed his most important work involved moving objects, his real fame came from observing the cosmos. No one had ever seen the surface of the Moon, the phases of Venus, sunspots, or...
View ArticleThe Islamic Menace of Turkey
The current protests in Turkey may have a beneficial effect in diminishing the Islamic fervor of the Turkish government. But judging Turkey just on its recent history, the expectations for a more...
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