7 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 ArticleGrantham celebrates Isaac Newton
Grantham's Gravity Fields Festival is the latest in a long line of celebrations of its most famous son, Isaac Newton. The 1858 statue of Isaac Newton, by William Theed, in Grantham. Photograph:...
View ArticleRevealed: The fish that nearly sank Isaac Newton
A 300-year-old drawing of a flying fish that nearly scuttled Isaac Newton's world-changing opus on modern physics will be showcased in the Royal Society's online...
View ArticleRevealed: The Flying Fish That Nearly Sank Isaac Newton
Paris. A 300-year-old drawing of a flying fish that nearly scuttled Isaac Newton’s world-changing opus on modern physics will be showcased in the Royal Society’s online...
View ArticleThe fish that nearly sank Newton
A 300-year-old drawing of a flying fish that nearly scuttled Isaac Newton's world-changing opus on modern physics will be showcased in the Royal Society's online...
View ArticleHow a Royal Society book about fish nearly sank Isaac Newton's Principia
Poor sales of lavishly illustrated book forced Royal Society to go back on promise to finance publication of Newton's Principia An engraving of a flying fish, one of a set from Historia Piscium....
View ArticleThe Fish That Nearly Sank Isaac Newton's Career
An intricate image of a flying fish is one of hundreds of images now searchable online courtesy of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom's national academy of science. This striking wood engraving...
View ArticleFishing for images of the past: Royal Society puts archive online featuring...
You will need a real taste for fin art to enjoy these antique drawings. They are the 300-year-old visions of Francis Willughby who painstakingly engraved them onto now faded parchment as he sought to...
View ArticleA Point of View: Crowd-sourcing comets
Astronomers in the 17th Century understood the value of sharing information in order to plot the path of comets. Now modern science is using the internet to follow their example, says historian Lisa...
View ArticleSotheby's London to Offer the Most Important Book in the History of Science...
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View ArticleEdmond Halley Biography: Facts, Discoveries and Quotes
Edmond Halley (1656-1742) Credit: Public domain. View full size image Edmond (or Edmund) Halley was an English scientist who is best known for predicting the orbit of the comet that was later named...
View Article'Cosmos' Recap: Halley's Comet History and 4 More Amazing Facts from Episode 3
The newest episode of "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" dove into all things big and small including the history of modern science. Aired Sunday night (March 23), the third episode of the reboot of Carl...
View Article`Cosmos' recap: The meaning and math of comets
Some of us are old enough to remember the much-ballyhooed appearance of Halley’s comet in 1986 – it only swoops past Earth once every 76 years, after all, and isn’t due back until 2061. (So mark your...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson Makes Us Feel Inadequate on This Week’s ‘Cosmos’
This week, 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey taught us about comets by offering a lesson on the men who, tangentially and directly, figured out what they are. The stars (so to speak) of the show are Isaac...
View ArticleFishing for a better future
Farmers in Wayanad are taking to inland aquaculture for better income, spurred by the increasing number of success stories in the sector. “When the State Fisheries Department started ‘Matsya Samrudhi’...
View ArticleU.K.'s Royal Society seeks help to buy notes of scientist Robert Hooke -
SUE LEEMAN 34 minutes ago LONDON (AP) - With its closely written lines in a spiky hand, the 520-page manuscript looks like any other 17th century document - but scholars say it offers an insight into...
View ArticleAncient and modern: First science academy is 350 years old
Handout photo provided by the Royal Society shows Isaac Newton's 'Death Mas... From its classical pillars and porticoed entrance to its oil paintings of great men and women and archives that include...
View ArticleAndreas Whittam smith: If only the Windsors faced satire as biting as George...
Straight after viewing a video work containing horrific scenes of cannibalism at the British Board of Film Classification in Soho Square, London, recently, I went to the wonderful James Gillray...
View ArticleBradford suffer worst losing run as Peter Fox leads Hull KR try hunt
Bradford crashed to their 10th successive defeat, the worst losing run since the club were re-formed in 1964. Rovers were always going to be a tough proposition following their derby loss to Hull but...
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LONDON -- The notes of 17th-century researcher Robert Hooke were posted on the Internet on Monday, opening an online window into the man who helped drive Britain's scientific revolution and laying bare...
View ArticleWhat a headcase
by James Gleick Fourth Estate £15, pp289 There are two inescapable conclusions to be drawn from Isaac Newton's life: that he was a prodigious genius of unsurpassed talent and a crazed ingrate of...
View ArticleHooke Notes Parallel Science Revolution
LONDON - The notes of 17th-century researcher Robert Hooke were posted on the Internet on Monday, opening an online window into the man who helped drive Britain's scientific revolution and laying bare...
View ArticleFish prices plunge as hyacinths destroy fish pen barriers in Buluan Lake
COTABATO CITY, PhilippinesAn oversupply has triggered a sharp decline in prices of inland fishes, after hyacinths destroyed perimeter poles of vast fish pens in the Maguindanao side of the Buluan...
View ArticleLasting Impressions by Colin See-Paynton, Shandy Hall Gallery, Coxwold, until...
Lasting Impressions, a selection of wood engravings by Colin See-Paynton, will be on show at Shandy Hall Gallery, Coxwold, until August 21. The exhibition ties in with the publication of his latest...
View ArticleHalley's Eclipse: a coup for Newtonian prediction and the selling of science
300 years ago, on the 3rd of May 1715, a rare solar eclipse occurred over England. It was an opportunity too good to miss for those promoting new astronomical theories – and their own careers. ...
View Article'A New Newton'?
In response to A New Newton (July 3, 2003) To the Editors: In his review of James Gleick's Isaac Newton [NYR, July 3], Freeman Dyson unfortunately shows how little versed he is in scholarship on...
View ArticleEdmond Halley should be remembered for more than his comet
This month we celebrated Edmond Halley’s 354th birthday with a flyby of comet Hartley II. Most everybody knows of Halley’s Comet, but few know of his many other accomplishments some of which made the...
View ArticleRoyal Society to open up 350 years of scientific history
Leading scientists plan to open up a priceless collection - ranging from a telescope built by Isaac Newton to a letter in defence of spiritualism by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - that has grown into a...
View ArticleBiting Satire
James Gillray died, incurably insane, on 1 June 1815. He had been mentally ill for four years but, being rarely violent, he was allowed to wander freely about the house of Mrs Hannah Humphrey, a...
View ArticleCambridge University puts Isaac Newton papers online
The notebooks in which Sir Isaac Newton worked out the theories on which much classical science is based have been put online by Cambridge University. More than 4,000 pages have been scanned, including...
View ArticleFlights of fancy
An elegant tale of sexy pigeons, confused roosters and arrogant naturalists delights Mark Cocker...
View ArticleNewton 'set back science by his vindictiveness'
SIR ISAAC NEWTON was a vindictive man who used his prestige and position to destroy the careers of rival scientists, according to a new book about Britains greatest physicist and mathematician. The...
View ArticleA bad-tempered genius
by Lisa Jardine 352pp, HarperCollins, £25Just over 300 years ago, in March 1703, Robert Hooke died in his rooms at Gresham College, London. "Your old philosopher is gone at last," wrote one of his...
View ArticleMeet The Greatest Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Ever
Li JiangNewtonian work that inspired Li Jiang. See Also I was at a PandoMonthly event in 2013 when Sarah Lacy interviewed John Doerr about the role of venture capitalists (VCs). John is certainly one...
View ArticleIn Pictures: The Royal Society's science book 'treasures'
A presentation copy of the first edition of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species, inscribed "from the author", is part of The Royal Society's exhibition of "remarkable treasures" from 350 years of...
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