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		Al-Khwarizmi didn't in any way originate, invent or create the algorithm (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		18 points by leephillips 26 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Renaissance Science – XV (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		1 point by jruohonen 30 days ago \| past
		It's Too Eurocentric (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		3 points by kreig on April 23, 2025 \| past
		History of Maths for Beginners (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		162 points by kreig on March 13, 2025 \| past \| 20 comments
		From τὰ φυσικά (ta physika) to physics – XXXVII: Galileo (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		2 points by Hooke on Jan 28, 2025 \| past
		Do you still count on your fingers? (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		38 points by Hooke on June 16, 2024 \| past \| 90 comments
		Mathematics and Literature, Really? (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		2 points by Hooke on May 20, 2024 \| past \| 1 comment
		The Phlogiston Theory – Wonderfully wrong but fantastically fruitful (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		1 point by trelane on Oct 22, 2023 \| past
		Incorrect casual assumptions (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		73 points by diodorus on Sept 26, 2023 \| past \| 37 comments
		Artificial Bullshit – Exploring the Story of Hypatia via ChatGPT and Midjourney (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		1 point by n2j3 on March 23, 2023 \| past
		Leonardo and Gravity (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		2 points by SiempreViernes on Feb 13, 2023 \| past
		Why do maps have north at the top? (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		2 points by davidbarker on Sept 2, 2022 \| past
		The Astronomical Librarian (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		9 points by Petiver on Nov 30, 2021 \| past
		Renaissance Science – XXII: Land Surveying (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		37 points by commons-tragedy on Nov 19, 2021 \| past \| 5 comments
		A seventeenth century Jesuit who constructed his own monument (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		51 points by benbreen on Oct 20, 2021 \| past \| 10 comments
		Musical, Mathematical Minim, Marin Mersenne (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		15 points by Hooke on Oct 8, 2021 \| past
		Renaissance Science – X: Introduction of Algebra to the European academic canon (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		5 points by Hooke on May 28, 2021 \| past
		Renaissance Science: the base ten number system (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		29 points by Hooke on May 17, 2021 \| past \| 11 comments
		A man who printed the world of plants (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		21 points by Petiver on Feb 1, 2021 \| past
		The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part LII (2020) (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		17 points by benbreen on Jan 8, 2021 \| past \| 1 comment
		Counting the days: the origin of Julian day numbers (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		1 point by fanf2 on Jan 1, 2021 \| past
		The event that eventually led to Newton writing and publishing the Principia (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		115 points by hecubus on July 18, 2020 \| past \| 56 comments
		The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XL (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		2 points by Hooke on July 15, 2020 \| past
		We Just Don't Know: Discussion of “The Idea of the Brain” (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		1 point by longdefeat on June 25, 2020 \| past
		How to create your own Galileo (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		1 point by Luc on May 28, 2020 \| past
		The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic: Part XXVII (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		45 points by Hooke on Jan 9, 2020 \| past \| 11 comments
		The Swinging 1660s (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		70 points by Hooke on Jan 1, 2020 \| past \| 17 comments
		Physicians to the fore – creating a new medical hierarchy in the modern period (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		2 points by vo2maxer on Dec 4, 2019 \| past
		The emergence of modern astronomy – a complex mosaic (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		20 points by benbreen on Nov 1, 2019 \| past \| 1 comment
		The Emergence of Modern Astronomy (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		1 point by jkmcf on Oct 25, 2019 \| past
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