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Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
If you can not get enough cool science history, this Sunday night playlist has you covered. From the Arctic Circle to the Orion Nebula, here are some of this week's best trips in the history of science and technology.
Art of vintage space
Étienne Leopold Trouvelot arrived in the United States in 1855 as a political refugee of Napoleon Bonaparte's regime in France. Photography was a relatively new technology when Trouvelot joined the Harvard University observatory staff as an illustrator and was convinced that the human eye was a much better tool for detailed astronomical observation. He developed a technique for projecting an image from his telescope from the Harvard University Observatory to the page of an approximate sketch, before completing further detail of memory. Ars Technica He presents eight of his most memorable works, including a realistic sketch of the great Orion Nebula, an almost surrealist rendering of sunspots, and a stylized image of Jupiter.
Registration with polar bears
Environmentalists have recently turned to Inuit hunters for their views on the evolution of polar bear habits and populations over the last 20 years. The Arctic is more sensitive to the effects of climate change than low latitudes, and Inuit hunters have told scientists that they have seen dramatic changes in weather, disappearance of sea ice, and changing behavior. polar bears in the last 20 years. Hakai Magazine reports.
Do not believe every image you see
The Arab world has a rich history in science and innovation, but the way we view medieval Arabian astronomy, medicine and engineering is distorted by fake paintings and artifacts that have made their way into articles, manuals and museums online. Aeon Magazine reports that many of these inaccurate images, such as portraits of early medieval Arab astronomers looking to the sky through telescopes (which did not reach the Arab world before the 17th century), as well as wacky devices found in some museums, were produced with the idea of making primitive Arabic science more recognizable and accessible to the modern public. But in the long run, sacrificing the truth for narrative reasons is bad for science and for history.
When programmable calculators were cool
In the 1980s, Soviet officials wanted every student to learn programming and algorithms, IEEE spectrum reports. When ambitious plans to install a computer in every classroom failed, a state-sponsored science fiction magazine helped fuel teenagers' fashions by calculating (and hacking) programmable calculators in the USSR.
The lost letter of Galilee
When he was tried for heresy, the seventeenth-century astronomer Galileo Galilei tried to pretend that he had been framed. One of the key pieces of evidence was a very strong letter of opposition to the Church's policy of taking the Bible passages literally. Galileo insisted that her original lyrics had been changed to give her vision a more radical appearance than she had. But a long-lost version of the letter was recently found in the library of the Royal Society, Nature News reports. Galileo had sent him to his friend Benedetto Castelli in December 1613, and this shows that he had carried out a thorough review to try to soften his original statements, probably for the purpose of easing his efforts. avoid problems with the Church.
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Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
If you fail to get enough scientific history, this Sunday night playlist has you covered. From the Arctic Circle to the Orion Nebula, here are some of this week's best trips in the history of science and technology.
Art of vintage space
Étienne Leopold Trouvelot arrived in the United States in 1855 as a political refugee of Napoleon Bonaparte's regime in France. Photography was a relatively new technology when Trouvelot joined the Harvard University observatory staff as an illustrator and was convinced that the human eye was a much better tool for detailed astronomical observation. He developed a technique for projecting an image from his telescope from the Harvard University Observatory to the page of an approximate sketch, before completing further detail of memory. Ars Technica He presents eight of his most memorable works, including a realistic sketch of the great Orion Nebula, an almost surrealist rendering of sunspots, and a stylized image of Jupiter.
Registration with polar bears
Environmentalists have recently turned to Inuit hunters for their views on the evolution of polar bear habits and populations over the last 20 years. The Arctic is more sensitive to the effects of climate change than low latitudes, and Inuit hunters have told scientists that they have seen dramatic changes in weather, disappearance of sea ice, and changing behavior. polar bears in the last 20 years. Hakai Magazine reports.
Do not believe every image you see
The Arab world has a rich history in science and innovation, but the way we view medieval Arabian astronomy, medicine and engineering is distorted by fake paintings and artifacts that have made their way into articles, manuals and museums online. Aeon Magazine reports that many of these inaccurate images, such as portraits of early medieval Arab astronomers looking to the sky through telescopes (which did not reach the Arab world before the 17th century), as well as wacky devices found in some museums, were produced with the idea of making primitive Arabic science more recognizable and accessible to modern audiences. But in the long run, sacrificing the truth for narrative reasons is bad for science and for history.
When programmable calculators were cool
In the 1980s, Soviet officials wanted every student to learn programming and algorithms, IEEE spectrum reports. When ambitious plans to install a computer in every classroom failed, a state-sponsored science fiction magazine helped fuel teenagers' fashions by calculating (and hacking) programmable calculators in the USSR.
The lost letter of Galilee
When he was tried for heresy, the seventeenth-century astronomer Galileo Galilei tried to pretend that he had been framed. One of the key pieces of evidence was a very strong letter of opposition to the Church's policy of taking the Bible passages literally. Galileo insisted that her original lyrics had been changed to give her vision a more radical appearance than she had. But a long-lost version of the letter was recently found in the library of the Royal Society, Nature News reports. Galileo had sent him to his friend Benedetto Castelli in December 1613, and this shows that he had carried out a thorough review to try to soften his original statements, probably for the purpose of easing his efforts. avoid problems with the Church.
