Copernicus

Nonconformity in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance

In his essay Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson argues for, among other things, a kind of nonconformity in thought and action.…

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Visiting Poland

Poland is a wonderful country with a tumultuous history that is unmatched and often overshadowed by the history of its…

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Ten Discoveries that Changed the World

Scientific discoveries have changed our lives and our planet in innumerable ways and to varying degree. But some discoveries have…

7 months ago

Islamic Astronomers, Copernicus, and the Question of Intellectual Mobility

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries several Arab astronomers developed mathematical techniques similar to that of Copernicus, including the previously…

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Significance of the Phlogiston Theory

Looking back, the phlogiston theory looked awkward and something that only an amateur scientist would even dream of claiming as…

4 years ago

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