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Franz Carl Achard
Sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar…
Girolamo Fabrizi d’Aquapendente
Jerry the Builder from the Waterfall
John Arbuthnot
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel.
Charles Babbage
Is the question ‘who invented the computer’ legitimate?
The Bernoullis
A Confusion of Bernoullis!
Herman Boerhaave
Medical Brackets
Giordano Bruno
Bruno was not scientific
Gerolamo Cardano
Gunfight at the Cubic Corral
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
The real founder of telescopic astronomy.
Agnes Mary Clarke
A Lady of Science
Christoph Clavius
A loser who was really a winner.
Copernicus
Nicky was an Ermländer!
John Dee
Not just a Magus but also a Mathematicus
Rembert Dodoens
Of Herbs and Herbals.
John Dollond
Taking the colour out of light.
David Fabricius
Twinkle, twinkle little star how I wonder where you went?
John Flamsteed
The Superior Stamp Collector
Girolamo Fracastoro
Syphilis and Comets
Galileo Galilei
The Starry Messenger What it Said and What that Really Meant!
A man with a strange name.
GG Superstar!
Extracting the stopper.
Ferdinando the Wunderkind.
Francesco Maria Grimaldi
Refraction, refrangibility, diffraction or inflexion
Chester Moore Hall
Taking the colour out of light.
Thomas Harriot
Cannonballs, Cherrios and Snowflakes
Jeremiah Horrocks
An important anniversary in the history of science.
Hypatia
Going to the movies
Johannes Kepler
Cannonballs, Cherrios and Snowflakes
Shedding some light!
A man with a strange name.
Oh happy day!
Ferdinando d’Medici
Ferdinando the Wunderkind.
Isaac Newton
Newton’s Dotage
Newton and the Counterfeiter: Review of a Subtitle!
Newton and the Counterfeiter: Part one: A review of a volume of popular history
Newton and the Counterfeiter: A Review Part 2.
The Last Magician
On clocks and triangles: a post for Newtonmas
Refraction, refrangibility, diffraction or inflexion
Taking the colour out of light.
Emmy Noether
Emmy and the Habilitation
Blaise Pascal
Religion contra science.
Joseph Priestley
The lunatic who invented fizzy pop.
John Ray
A boy from Essex who made good
Regiomontanus
What’s in a Name?
Bertrand Russell
Bertie’s Dream
Johannes Schöner
Circumnavigating the Globe
Jan Swammerdam
A Biological Birthday.
Tartaglia
Gunfight at the Cubic Corral
Alan Turing
Too little too late but it’s better than nothing
Poetical Turing
Vesalius
Medical Brackets
John Wilkins
John Wilkins Day
Christopher Wren
Not just an architect.
Konrad Zuse
Z3 or not Z3 that is the question.
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