40 Episoade

  1. Societal role of geometry in early civilisations

    Publicat: 29.03.2020
  2. Why the Greeks?

    Publicat: 16.02.2020
  3. The mathematicians’ view of Galileo

    Publicat: 11.01.2020
  4. Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages

    Publicat: 03.12.2019
  5. More things Galileo didn’t do first

    Publicat: 28.10.2019
  6. Galileo was the first to … what exactly?

    Publicat: 21.09.2019
  7. Galileo and the Church

    Publicat: 15.08.2019
  8. Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air

    Publicat: 07.07.2019
  9. Phases of Venus

    Publicat: 02.06.2019
  10. Blemished sun

    Publicat: 04.05.2019
  11. The telescope

    Publicat: 06.04.2019
  12. Heliocentrism before the telescope

    Publicat: 09.03.2019
  13. Heliocentrism in antiquity

    Publicat: 11.02.2019
  14. Galileo’s theory of tides

    Publicat: 18.01.2019
  15. Why Galileo is like Nostradamus

    Publicat: 27.12.2018
  16. Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia

    Publicat: 10.12.2018
  17. The case against Galileo on the law of fall

    Publicat: 29.11.2018
  18. Galilean science in antiquity?

    Publicat: 21.11.2018
  19. Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now

    Publicat: 21.11.2018
  20. Galileo bad, Archimedes good

    Publicat: 21.11.2018

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Cracking tales of historical mathematics and its interplay with science, philosophy, and culture. Revisionist history galore. Contrarian takes on received wisdom. Implications for teaching. Informed by current scholarship. By Dr Viktor Blåsjö.

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