40 Episodo

  1. Societal role of geometry in early civilisations

    Publicado: 29/3/2020
  2. Why the Greeks?

    Publicado: 16/2/2020
  3. The mathematicians’ view of Galileo

    Publicado: 11/1/2020
  4. Historiography of Galileo’s relation to antiquity and middle ages

    Publicado: 3/12/2019
  5. More things Galileo didn’t do first

    Publicado: 28/10/2019
  6. Galileo was the first to … what exactly?

    Publicado: 21/9/2019
  7. Galileo and the Church

    Publicado: 15/8/2019
  8. Galileo’s theory of comets is hot air

    Publicado: 7/7/2019
  9. Phases of Venus

    Publicado: 2/6/2019
  10. Blemished sun

    Publicado: 4/5/2019
  11. The telescope

    Publicado: 6/4/2019
  12. Heliocentrism before the telescope

    Publicado: 9/3/2019
  13. Heliocentrism in antiquity

    Publicado: 11/2/2019
  14. Galileo’s theory of tides

    Publicado: 18/1/2019
  15. Why Galileo is like Nostradamus

    Publicado: 27/12/2018
  16. Galileo’s errors on projectile motion and inertia

    Publicado: 10/12/2018
  17. The case against Galileo on the law of fall

    Publicado: 29/11/2018
  18. Galilean science in antiquity?

    Publicado: 21/11/2018
  19. Mathematics versus philosophy, then and now

    Publicado: 21/11/2018
  20. Galileo bad, Archimedes good

    Publicado: 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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