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Do you still count on your fingers?

Incorrect casual assumptions

The Astronomical Librarian

Renaissance Science – XXII: Land Surveying

Musical, Mathematical Minim, Marin Mersenne

A seventeenth century Jesuit who constructed his own monument

Renaissance Science: the base ten number system

Renaissance Science – X: Introduction of Algebra to the European academic canon

A man who printed the world of plants

The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part LII (2020)

The event that eventually led to Newton writing and publishing the Principia

The Swinging 1660s

The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXVII

The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic

Calculus for the Curious

A Newtonian Refugee

The first calculating machine

The Galileo Circus is in town

400 Years of the Third Law – An overlooked and neglected revolution in astronomy

A short history of Hindu-Arabic numbers

Born under a bad sign

The first English professor of mathematics

A Lady Logician

Galileo and Heliocentricity: A Rough Guide (2014)

The Great Man Paradox

Telling the Time at Night

Bringing the heavens down to earth: the early history of telescopes

The problem with superlatives in the history of science

Abraham Ortelius and the 16th century information age (2015)

A Renaissance Artist-Engineer Icon – Vitruvian Man

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