Showing posts with label science/industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science/industry. Show all posts
Friday, February 27, 2026

A most excellent person

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Today marks the 320th anniversary of the death of John Evelyn, a contemporary and friend of Samuel Pepys, who described him as a ‘most excel...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Sense and senselessness

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Today marks the centenary of the birth of Zygmunt Bauman. He published prolifically across the spectrum of sociology and social theory, and ...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Boglice round the neck

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‘At the Crown, Sir Christopher told of killing the wormes with burnt oyle (elsewhere mentiond) and of curing his Lady of a thrush by hanging...
Friday, May 23, 2025

I was rather incredulous

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‘He explained his call to my astonishment that Beadle, Tatum, and I were to be the co-recipients of the Nobel prize in medicine this year. I...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

William Derham - natural philosopher

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William Derham, an English clergyman and natural philosopher, died 230 years ago today. He was best known for his works on natural theology ...
Monday, March 3, 2025

An arch-druid was buryed

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‘At the Royal Society. Mr. Collison showed me a Druid bead of glass, enameled, found at Henbury, near Macclesfield. Henbury is the old grave...
Friday, February 7, 2025

Laws of the world organism

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‘Shouldn’t the student of modern subjects learn from geology, physics, chemistry, etc., the laws of the world organism? The perceived unity ...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Ampère falling in love

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André-Marie Ampère, dubbed the father of electrodynamics, was born 250 years ago today. A child of the enlightenment and Rousseau’s educatio...