The New London and the Heavenly Jerusalem: Scientists and Craftsmen in Sir Christopher Wren's London The decades over which St. Paul's was re-built after the...
Thomas Hirst (1887): Ah, why was Newton ever born? Thomas Hirst (1830-1892) recounts the period of mathematical history through...
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Edmond Halley (1727): On the Shoulders of Giants Edmond Halley presents a lecture about his friend, Sir Isaac...
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Arithmetic by Computer and by Human Long multiplication, long division and logarithms are, for many, dim-remembered...