
What Columbus "Saw" in 1492
When Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World, he brought with him a rich load of cultural preconceptions that strongly influenced his perceptions of the land and its inhabitants

What Columbus "Saw" in 1492
When Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World, he brought with him a rich load of cultural preconceptions that strongly influenced his perceptions of the land and its inhabitants

Florence Nightingale
She saved the lives of thousands of soldiers in the Crimea and was one of the founders of modern medical care. She was also a pioneer in the uses of social statistics and in their graphical representation

Newton's Discovery of Gravity
How did he come to develop the concept that marked the beginning of modern science? In essence he did so by repetitively comparing the real world with a simplified mathematical representation of it

Stephen Hales
This 17th- and 18th-century clergyman was the first to measure the pressure of the blood. He also investigated the flow of water and sap in plants and thereby founded modern plant physiology

Books, February 1973
A classic reexamined: Robert Merton's study of science in the 17th century

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Mathematics, the childhood of Isaac Newton's science

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Koestler on Kepler and the history of man's picture of the universe

Isaac Newton
This inward, quarrelsome man, who often forgot to eat his meals, invented the calculus and laid the foundations of mechanics and optics—all in 18 "golden" months after graduating from college

An Interview with Einstein
Two weeks before Einstein died he was visited by a historian of science. They sat in Einstein's study and discussed some of his illustrious predecessors in the evolution of physics

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Two historical works: one on the ether and the other about Babylonian science

Maxwell's Poetry
The great English physicist wrote some amusing light verse. Herewith a small sample of it, written mostly at the expense of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

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A new biography of Willard Gibbs by a physicist who was one of his students

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On the first volume of Henry E. Sigerist's imposing history of medicine and society

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The fruitful life of Louis Pasteur, as told by one of his direct scientific descendants

Galileo
The massive achievements of the Italian physicist, astronomer and mathematician mark the transition from the Middle Ages to the era of modern science

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Two historic scientific institutions and their place in the development of science in the U. S. and England

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The history of science as a record of the march of human thought: a review of George Sarton's monumental work and some other recent histories

In Defense of Benjamin Franklin
The homely Philadelphian, often treated by historians as a politician with a spare-time interest in gadgets, was actually one of the great experimental scientists