Culture is part of the unholy trinity—culture, chaos, and cock-up—which roam through our versions of history, substituting for traditional theories of causation. – Filipe Fernández–Armesto "Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration"
Excuse the language, but who the fuck sets homework questions like this for seven year olds? I studied philosophy of mathematics and could write a fucking dissertation trying to answer this question.
I think everybody on Twitter should give @profdanhicks a massive round of applause for initiating, organising and motivating the quite extraordinary #MuseumsUnlocked over the last weeks
In their published works, Carl Sagan. Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson all write bad history of science. When I point this out, their fans say it doesn't matter, because they are brilliant science communicators. Somebody, who is a successful author and wilfully writes 1/2
I read the first part of Van Brummelen's excellent history of trigonometry The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry, when it came out and have waited twelve years for part two which came today